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...could move only her right hand. With the help of her roommate, Karen Thompson, an associate professor of physical education at St. Cloud State University, Sharon, then & 27, struggled to learn to sip from a glass, comb her hair, communicate with a typewriter. "We learned to play again, to laugh again," Thompson recalls...
...looming dramatically behind them -- two legends from the lunatic fringe of American capitalism. Howard Hughes (Dean Stockwell, in another of his sharply incised cameos) gestures toward history's largest airplane. "They say it can't fly," he intently whispers, "but that's not the point." We in the audience laugh, poor conventional souls that we are, brought up to believe the goal of invention is not self-satisfaction but marketability and, just possibly, the chance to improve mankind's general welfare. How boring...
...broken families, working mothers and perils like drugs, growing up is not easy. From the depressed hollows of West Virginia to the comfortable breezes off Puget Sound, five terrific kids laugh and play and struggle through the jagged landscape of modern childhood...
Most observers, nevertheless, expect the talks to resume in Washington next week, when top Cuban, South African and Angolan officials will discuss the mechanics of a disengagement. As Botha pointed out with a sardonic laugh, the choice of locale places the Cubans and South Africans on the same side: both must overcome U.S. restrictions and seek special permission for their delegations to fly to Washington...
Because of the anachronisms, Dream's satire hasn't aged well. Mommy and her women's club friend, Mrs. Barker (Caroline Bicks) bear little resemblance to career-minded 1980s women. It's also hard to laugh at a feeble man who calls his dominating wife "Mommy," since President Reagan is still in office...