Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet educators worry that such skewed texts in history and other subjects may stifle creative thinking. Worse, the combination of bad books and ideologically rigid pedagogy may put Soviets at a competitive disadvantage in the world arena. "I'm ashamed to say it, but my grandchildren study more or less from the textbooks that I used as a child before the war," one man wrote to Pravda...
WISEGUY (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EDT). A new slot in summer reruns has helped boost the ratings for this intelligent, hard-boiled crime drama, featuring Ken Wahl as an undercover cop on the trail of slimy bad guys...
...Good, bad or indifferent, megabangs are beginning to cost megabucks. Reportedly, each of these films costs well over $30 million, with De Niro and Willis pulling in about $5 million a head. And in a season in which Schwarzenegger's Red Heat and Sylvester Stallone's pricey Rambo III are having trouble reaching profit, scholars of the bottom line are wondering if the action-adventure genre has a future. Possibly not, if people keep putting their money into more noise and bigger flames. But a performance like De Niro's, in a well-made entertainment like Midnight Run, is cheap...
Given his record, his friends should not have been surprised at his dramatic rectitude when he took office as Governor in 1974. He had schemed with them when they were fighting the entrenched powers -- who were bad men, after all, and had to be treated with some of their own weapons. Now, however, when good men were in office, the old practices would be abolished. The Dukakis people were ready for that. What they failed to anticipate was that Dukakis would not be sure that even they were as good as he needed. Even legitimate dealings with state agencies were...
...guess this Sam Shepard fella wants us all t' think he's th' prototype rugged Westerner, th' last cowboy. That's why he's in all those movies, playin' th' big steer with th' bad teeth. N' that's why he writes plays like Curse of the Starving Class...