Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gordon says her involvement in activities away from Harvard has in large part been spurred by a desire to befriend people of different generations and from different backgrounds. And her interest in social issues goes far beyond refugees' concerns. She is concerned with women's rights, gay rights, and civil rights in general...
Bizarre symbolism abounds in this tale. Red is everywhere, from the Coke cans to the ever enigmatic Santa suit. And why does Roberts choose to befriend a small marsupial, of all creatures, that he finds in his apartment. But this movie is definitely not, as one Boston critic put it, too weird for words. The comedy of Coca-Cola Kid is akin to that of Bill Forsyth, odd and ethnic, but not inaccessible by any means. In contrast to the supposed Oscar heavy-weights that have gone thud this fall, The Coca-Cola Kid doesn't take itself or anyone...
...Helpers, all of whom he tells to be quiet while he tries to make a phone call. They do not, however, kill him in 18 different ways, as they want to do at first. Pee Wee's ingenuity not only allows him to save his own neck, but to befriend the roadies as well...
...Governor's wife more than a decade ago in California, she began promoting the Foster Grandparents Program, in which older volunteers befriend orphaned or handicapped children. She has continued some work on behalf of the organization as First Lady. Yet for the past two years, that cause has been eclipsed by a more aggressive, hard-edged campaign intended to discourage drug use among young people. Her advisers encouraged the shift in emphasis: speaking out against marijuana and narcotics use in the schools, they felt, would have greater urgency and political appeal. The serious-minded displays of the First Lady...
...double shock: he is both the incarnation and a parody of her lost love. He speaks in the tones of a computerized Muppet and moves in twitches, like a punk robot. But he is innocent and kind, and as alone in the universe as she feels. She can befriend him, teach him, mother him and finally love him-whoever he is, whomever she wants him to be. She can travel with him, as the movie does, under cruise control toward romantic transcendence...