Word: brooding
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Even if a state's citizens and leaders decided that it was fine to cut costs by giving inmates gruel and just enough space to brood lying down, the federal judiciary's notions of decency would no longer permit them to do so. During the past ten years, a conservative Supreme Court affirmed, and then cautiously circumscribed, the range of prison conditions deemed unconstitutional, and the discretion of lower federal judges to order remedies. In its 1976 decision in the Texas case Estelle vs. Gamble, and even more powerfully two years later in Hutto vs. Finney, a case involving sickeningly...
...star of this Mylar melodrama had her own seductive pathology, much of which came from her bloodlines. A bizarre brood, the Sedgwicks. Their money was so "old" it just seemed to grow wild, like weeds on a lawn, or like the manic-depressive strain that led to suicide for several members of the clan. Uncle Minturn, who kept watch over the Sedgwick gravesite in Stockbridge, Mass., insisted on cheap pine coffins for the family and would lie inside them to test their fit. Edie's father Francis, a golden boy at Harvard in the 1920s who turned to sculpting...
...times the graphic line comes close to obliterating the story line (from Robert C. O'Brien's Newbery Award-winning novel). Poor Mrs. Brisby and her rodent brood! If they do not pale in contrast to the sophisticated visuals, they are slipping out of the spotlight to make room for a chorus of scene stealers on both sides of the camera. Sullivan, a feline too mean for the Official I Hate Cats Book, is given the voice of gravel-garbling Aldo Ray. Someone finally found an apt role for ancient John Carradine: the basso voice of the Great...
...waste and inefficiency around the country, the clearer it becomes that time and motion are all he truly possesses. Daughter Jenny is a pediatrician who marries three times and buries herself in runny noses, diaper rashes and colic. There seems to be no line between her own assorted brood and her patients...
...Winter; its showers of sparks keep the production moving through more than two hours of miraculously complex family machinations. Henry, aging at 50 and increasingly anxious about England's future under his three bickering sona, wants to give everything to John, the youngest and least appealing of the brood. Eleanor, his Queen, who in youth divorced the King of France for a tempestuous marriage with Henry, has aged too and embittered; all she has left is determination to thwart Henry's choice, whatever desire of his she can detect...