Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Snoopy (Rob McManus) who sparkles as the feline-hating World War I flying ace. Lucy Van Pelt (Ann Henry) is the obnoxious big-sister and homespun-psychiatrist that we've come to expect. Blanket-armed Linus (Ron Duvernay), Lucy's brother, is an intellectual version of the picked-on innocent. And Schroeder (Biggs) and his piano, are sweetly in line with the musical prodigy Schultz penned. The only unrecognizable old-timer is Peppermint Patty (Jennifer Joss). In the strip she is a loveably irritating tomboy. Joss turns her into a shallow, bubbly valley-girl...
...blindfold, light the cigarette and ask for that last request. Jeff Bloom, Tufts' pitching ace who doesn't miss very often, is taking aim in today's game against the Maine school...
...coastal resort area of Goa looked like just another tourist. So too did the man who greeted him cheerily, "Hello, Charles. How are you?" The drinker reached for his revolver, and his interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...
...father is a psychoanalyst, her mother a film director, and their daughter, who graduated from Berkeley, is . . . well, currently on tour. As one of the four members of a sensational rock outfit called the Bangles. Who have a new Columbia album called Different Light. Who have an ace single, Manic Monday, written pseudonymously by Prince and closing like an Exocet onto the top of the charts. Who will not have to introduce themselves to anyone by the time summer rolls around...
...Violets Are Blue, it is the woman who leads a life of romantic adventure, the man who is stuck in the mud of middle-class responsibility, yearning not quite hard enough to fly free. She is Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek), who has left Ocean City, Md., to become an ace photojournalist. He is Henry Squires (Kevin Kline), who has inherited his family's newspaper and the usual passel of burdens: wife, child, civic duties. They were lovers once, and become lovers again when she returns home for a vacation. Will he accept her invitation to join...