Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bad news for Harvard didn't stop there. Scott was forced to play his first singles match hindered by a torn or badly strained rotator cuff he injured during practice...
...tries to mediate a gang war. He may be good, but he has no family and no girlfriend, and gets uncomfortable the one time he is obliged to hug a woman. He displays an unfailing courage and shoots straight, period. But this is a new Norris: he creams bad guys with roundhouse bursts of martial arts just twice. In Forced Vengeance there were 17 karate sequences...
...cursed. And so they were: Etienne of Navarre (Rutger Hauer) is transformed into a wolf each night; the lady Isabeau (Michelle Pfeiffer) must become a hawk by day. Always together, eternally apart, these two ironic superheroes have a mediating companion, the impish cutpurse Phillipe (Matthew Broderick again). Not a bad premise for a wistful romance, especially when it stars three such appealing actors. Alas, the script (by Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas and Tom Mankiewicz) jumbles modern slang with chivalric sentiment; and Director Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman) is no spellbinder of medieval melancholy. "I believe in miracles," says the evil...
...Yogi will be the manager this year," he promised in the spring. "A bad start will not affect Yogi's status." Looking as he has always looked, like a taxicab with the doors open, Berra took his leave after 16 games with an old Yankee grace. He has never been able to sustain a grudge against baseball. In 1975, when Berra was discharged as manager of the New York Mets, he spoke of needing to distance himself from the game. "I'm going to take my family on a trip," he said, "and get as far away from baseball...
Another thorny question: how to handle finances. "In traditional marriages, money was family income no matter who brought it in," says Psychiatrist Clifford Sager of New York. "Now each wants to hold on to his or her own. That's not bad as long as a reasonable percentage is put into a common pot, but often you get these cute arrangements where the man's money goes on the household and the woman's on vacations...