Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Woomargama, a comfy 4,000-acre ranch, where he will rest while his parents glide through their 25,000-mile, six-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, returning nine times to check up on their son and recuperate. Their first stop: Room 303 (complete with hot tub and tea bags) in the roadside, 52-unit Gap Motel, just down the street from the Piggly Wiggly supermarket...
Horton Foote's lovely screenplay finds its pace and meaning in the slow, plaintive tempo of rural Texas life. Mac teaches Sonny a few guitar chords; he sashays through a honkytonk dance with Rosa Lee; he gets dunked in the christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed...
...hour-long lecture was informational, as Rosovsky explained Harvard's "tub system" for managerial responsibility and the process by which lectured faculty are selected...
...Diego, Seal Beach, Ventura and Sunset Beach were extremely hard-hit. In the exclusive Malibu colony, waves left the homes of Film Stars Bruce Dern, Burgess Meredith and Dyan Cannon awash with debris. "I knew it was all over," said Colony Resident Becky Ilagen, "when I saw the hot tub sail by into the ocean...
...phone rang. Her predecessor on the diplomatic beat, at that time foreign editor in Cairo, wanted to know why Sadat had returned home so early when he was still supposed to be in Jerusalem. "The news came as a total surprise to me. But I got out of the tub in a hurry and onto the phone only to find out how big a story I nearly missed." Apparently, Begin had offended Sadat and the entire delegation had left after the first morning meeting...