Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...final message to the Dorchester homeboy music group: "Joe McIntyre, I love you!" she squealed...
...reapportioned. Florida, which gained 31%, to 12,775,000, will get four extra seats. In all, 19 House seats will shift from state to state, with New York, which held virtually steady at 17,627,000, suffering the largest loss: three seats. As the numbers are refined for final release in December, they are expected to show that the U.S. has grown to a population of nearly 250 million...
...Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters by Philadelphia police in 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit...
Between first acknowledgment of mortality and this final acceptance of it, we see death attempting to lure a mountaineer lost in a blizzard; we share the guilt of an army officer -- the only member of his unit to survive the war - -- as he confronts the ghosts of his fallen comrades; we literally enter Van Gogh's paintings and find the artist (played by director Martin Scorsese) indifferent to death, obsessed with capturing nature's true spirit. In one of Kurosawa's most magically told tales, a child is forced to confront his hidden feelings about his family's carelessness...
...final episode, a lovely pastoral set in a village of water mills, a 103-year-old man explains the secret of longevity to the figure (Akira Terao) who is Kurosawa's surrogate in six of these tales. In essence, he tells him to live in harmony with nature, avoiding the tempting conveniences of technology. But the night is so dark without electricity, the young man complains. "It's supposed to be dark," says the old fellow, who is last seen benignly dancing in a funeral procession...