Word: ber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting is hot, but the staging is horrific. One worries more about the actors than about friend or foe. Part of the blame rests with the set. A conundrum at best, it consists of three-tiered automatically movable towers of ill-assorted lum ber, through which the actors peek out like birds in wooden cages. During the battle scenes these towers rumble about the stage firing off errant fusillades, al most running down the soldiers as if they were pedestrians...
...this end, Grease 2 has assembled bloodless pastiches of 20-year-old pop music, reduced antique dance styles to their simplest components, ignored the authentic texture of language, manners and style except for their most obvious elements. The story is of the same cali ber: Michael, an English lad (Maxwell Caulfield), falls in love with Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer), leader of the T-Birds' hangers-on, the Pink Ladies. Her heart, however, does wheelies for him only when he dresses up as a mysteriously masked motorcyclist, a sort of Lone Ranger on a hawg. He does not reveal his true...
...always been unfair to rate a Congress as either "do-nothing" or "rub ber-stamp," depending upon how it responded to a President's legislative desires. The current Congress, in particular, might well merit praise by refusing to adopt presidential economic policies that it considers too risky. But that is not enough. Inaction and stalemate on the economy can be as dangerous as errant action. The nation cannot afford a prolonged political confrontation between the White House and Capitol Hill. If the President will not yield, Howard Baker and his congressional cohort really have no choice; they must...
Most of last year's solid defense is back, including co-captain Starr, junior Spalding, and sophomores Megan Ber-thold and Debbie Taft. Goalie Tate is also a returnee, after posting an .866 save percentage as a freshman last year...
...give U.S. executives a journalist's view of the personalities and issues shaping events in two critical areas of the world. Making the trip, accompanied by 16 TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, were Robert Anderson, Chairman, Rockwell International Corp.; John R. Beckett, Chairman, Transamerica Corp.; James F. Beré, Chairman, Borg-Warner Corp.; Theodore F Brophy, Chairman, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Philip Caldwell, Chairman, Ford Motor Co.; Albert V. Casey, Chairman, American Airlines Inc.; Richard P. Cooley, Chairman, Wells Fargo & Co.; Donald W. Davis, Chairman, Stanley Works; Edwin D. Dodd, Chairman, Owens-Illinois Inc.; Myron DuBain, Chairman, Fireman...