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...suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through the movie like a puzzled zombie. Did she do Mike's Murder as a favor to Bridges, who in Urban Cowboy gave Winger her first meaty role? It looks more like penance...
...past three months, ABC has aired clip after clip of the breathtaking sequence when Mike Eruzione netted the goal that hoisted the 1980 U.S. hockey team towards the gold at the Soviet Union's expense. Pamdemonium! National pride! Miracle on ice! Blah, blah, blah...will it happen again? became the inevitable supposition...
...last week's nonpartisan primary picked them as the two mayoral finalists out of an eight-candidate field, Melvin King got just 98 more votes (out of a record 165,688 cast) than City Councilman Raymond Flynn. So will the general election, four weeks from now, be a blah choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Only if one overlooks the fact that Ray Flynn is white and Mel King is black...
...flight attendant's after-takeoff chant is so familiar that to an experienced traveler it sounds like "Blah, blah, blah, seat belts. Mumble, jumble, life vests under your seats." Suddenly there is an ear-opening sentence: "Welcome to People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the history of aviation!" Welcome, indeed. We are aboard People's el cheapo $149 Newark-to-London flight, and the mood of most of us is light to the point of giddiness. Who cares if it costs $3 to check a suitcase? Most of us are traveling light. So what if instead...
...record industry has gone from boom to blah. In 1978, estimated retail sales reached $4.13 billion with hit albums like Grease leading the way. Then the tune changed. Rising prices, fewer hits, disco, limited radio-station play, home taping, competition from video games-all were blamed for driving down music sales. Last year, sales totaled $3.59 billion, a four-year decline...