Word: golden
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Goldberg made her motion picture debut in Stephen Spielberg's film version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award...
...apparently working her usual guilt trip magic over in Washington, D.C. Common sense, medical knowledge, and the government's primary responsibility to its own people are all disregarded for fear that words like "discrimination," "ethnocentrism," and "insensitivity" will be thrown like bricks at the already battered image of our golden-boy president...
Sullivan and his team know that tonight's game against Yale (5-12 overall, 2-4 Ivy) and tomorrow's contest against Brown (6-12 overall, 1-5 Ivy) represent a golden opportunity for Harvard--perhaps its last of the season--to break out of its current losing skein...
...Beatles days also echo through Off the Ground, his best and brashest record since the 1973 Band on the Run. His tendency toward sentimentality is held in check by boisterous guitars and lyrics that raise an activist banner against animal abuse and social intolerance. The quirky orchestral embellishments on Golden Earth Girl and Mistress and Maid recall the Fab Four's psychedelic phase, while C'mon People, with its heartfelt appeal to "get it right this time," evokes the Utopian sweep of Golden Slumbers and Hey Jude...
...medication for three weeks, and is ready, maybe, to go home to her husband Leroy (stalwart John Heard) and their seven kids. Patricia wants Leroy, a carpenter who is descended from Alexander Hamilton, to be more successful and less complacent. And she seeks release from the ghosts of her golden youth. But wry or wistful, she speaks with the reckless lucidity of someone liberated from drugs and intoxicated by the impending peril of real life. "Sooner or later you just have to stand up and say, 'I'm normal, I made it,' " she says. "But it's like standing...