Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there, but the only thing that really matters is that the episode gave the boy a nickname to grow into-Bear. A perfect name for 50 years of football, a name to match his towering physical presence and deep rumbling voice. In the end, it was a name big enough to fit his influence on the game...
Even after the oil workers and Teamsters settle their contracts, an extraordinary number of big pacts, covering a wide variety of workers, will be up for renegotiation next year. A rundown of the most important...
Autos. The really big one. In September, contracts between the 650,000 members of the United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big Three expire. During the past two decades, the union has struck one or another of the companies each time around; early speculation is that this year its prime target will be GM. Main demands will be for inflation protection and a shorter work week, but the liberal union's stance could harden if Carter moves to cut social spending...
...Truth with Irene Dunne. In 1978, a year of falling dollars and rising prices, audiences often made similar choices. Thought was out. Thrills and chills and, most of all, sheer fun were in. Films that did well were ones that packed an old-fashioned entertainment wallop. "There was a big desire for mindless excitement this year," says Gene Stavis, director of Manhattan's American Cinemathèque. "Whether it's laughter or screams, anything that gets the adrenaline going gets people into the theater. We are in an era when people are looking for a jolt...
...something like $130 million apiece, and two-Grease and Fever-not coincidentally star John Travolta, who this time last year was known only to TV viewers. The hungry white shark, or his bereaved mate, that gobbled up the dollars in the summer of 1975 swam back for another big bite in Jaws II, which grossed $98.6 million. Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty's good-humored remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan, grossed $72 million, and The Goodbye Girl, another film from late 1977, grossed $82 million. Though it opened only this month, Superman seems to have...