Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bear the "Steven Spielberg Presents" imprimatur. The Goonies, directed by Richard Donner from a Spielberg story, earned a healthy $41.4 million in its first 24 days' release; Back to the Future, a spiffy time-machine comedy from Director-Writer Bob Zemeckis, opened last week to positive reviews and audience acclaim. But that is just for openers. Next week E.T. will beam back down to 1,500 theaters for a saturation rerelease. At Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg's studio-within-a- studio on the Universal Pictures lot, he is shepherding another pair of pictures, Young Sherlock Holmes and The Money Pit, toward...
Instead of winning acclaim, the legislation has been attacked by feminist groups protesting the relaxation of the overtime ban and limitation of the monthly days off. Even the areas of the bill that the women approve of are dismissed as unworkable because no penalties have been set for companies that violate the law. Feminists say they will try to get their views heard when the labor ministry draws up regulations for the administration of the law. Charges Tokyo Women's Rights Crusader Mitsue Yamada: "We don't gain anything whatsoever from the new law . . . from a woman's point...
After all, contemporary acclaim is wonderful. Peggy Lee, the jazz singer, once fielded the question "Who is the best jazz singer?" as cleanly as Brooks Robinson reaching over third base: "Do you mean besides Ella?" Such is the esteem in which Wayne Gretzky and Larry Bird are held now. By common agreement, each is the best in his sport, and something more than that. They are changing the elements if not the definition of a star. In Gretzky's and Bird's gloved and bare hands, hockey and basketball appear to improve even as games, seem to become not only...
...those who feel the present system is inherently unfast, any result short of universal acclaim will be an indictment against it. The housing lottery as it presently exists, with students expressing their choices and hoping for the best, seeks the happiness of some (the 69 percent who get their last choice) at the unjust expense of others (the 31 percent who don't, and the 9 percent who are assigned to none of their three choices). The Undergraduate Council poll will legitimate the present lottery system almost as much as a survey in a Roman coliseum might have legitimated feeding...
...charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were a kid? Were you attacked by a $10 bill?") Bronson Pinchot, currently winning acclaim for his bit as a swishy art-gallery assistant in Beverly Hills Cop, brightens the show as a gay lawyer who works with Sara, but he too is at the mercy of mediocre material...