Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everywhere in the U.S. and Canada. The debut will be accompanied by a huge advertising campaign reviving the I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke theme song that was wildly popular in the early 1970s. In one of the first commercials, Comedian Bill Cosby, dressed as an archaeologist and surrounded by relics, quips, "If you're a Pepsi drinker, well, maybe that'll be history...
...nearly 5 o'clock now, and the men in the pit are beginning to emerge wearily. Navy Lieut. Commander Decker is the last man left in, a solitary figure warmed by the fading gold of the afternoon sun. Like the others, he is a kind of archaeologist exhuming not the distant past but a recent one, searching not for fossils and amulets but for the bones and traces of lost colleagues...
...highest grossers of all time: Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Now, returning from the outer space of the Star Wars sagas and the exotic locales frequented by that adventurous archaeologist, Indiana Jones, he is starring in Peter Weir's Witness, a contemporary thriller that promises to be the first hit of 1985. Put into wide release on Feb. 8, the film made $4,540,000 in its first weekend, an exceptional figure for a picture that boasts neither gimmicks nor special effects...
...have been here before. George Plimpton humiliated himself with the pros. Roger Angell has described a pitcher standing on a "hill like (a) sunstruck archaeologist at Knossos." John Updike, Ring Lardner, Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Robert Coover and other "serious" writers have regarded baseball as a metaphor for the human predicament. What can a puffing 56- year-old add to the overloaded shelf of belles lettres on the summer game...
...that grueling trek. Reason: to launch a new study of what could be one of the magnificent "Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...