Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harrison Ford goes Frantic in Roman Polanski' s homage to Hitchcock. -- Kathleen Turner niftily anchors Switching Channels...
...Fifth Child can be read simply as a hair-raising tale; the struggle $ between the Lovatt household and the "alien" who comes to live there is as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire. Lessing's style is straightforward, sometimes almost telegraphic: "In September, of the year Ben became eleven, he went to the big school. He was eleven. It was 1986." This spareness suggests parable, a single accessible version of complex truths. Yet beneath its clear surface, Lessing's novel roils with several possible meanings. Perhaps David and Harriet, in their zeal to create...
This time, the setting is a satellite TV network where Anchorwoman Christy Colleran (Kathleen Turner) is the best newsman in town. Screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds needn't change much else. Even with their pampered hair and fractured prose, these journalists can be as rapacious and fallacious as the old guys. Just watch the media line up avidly for the first televised electrocution, then blow the story when the warden blows a fuse. What you won't see here is the daft equipoise Howard Hawks brought to His Girl Friday. The new film's director, Ted Kotcheff, is content to push everybody...
...program, which features host Pat Sajak and letter-turner and author, Vanna White, is coming to Cambridge March 17 to recruit a Harvard team to compete in the special tournament this April...
After the Bourgeois goal, the Crimson once again tried to mount an attack. But Handzel thwarted Harvard by making some key saves. The Crimson continued to press until a goal by Turner with under eight minutes remaining completely dimmed any hopes for a comeback...