Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That joke is the idea of a man who thinks he is a dog. During a North woods blizzard, jealous Reggie Shand (Christopher Lloyd) literally left his infant brother Robert to the wolves. Now, 30 years later, Penny (Amy Steel), a pretty young scientist, discovers "Bobo" (Mandel), whom the wolves have raised as one of their own. She returns Bobo to the Shand household, thwarting Reggie's plan to appropriate his brother's inheritance, now that he has squandered his own. Penny spends the rest of the movie trying to teach Bobo to act like a person, while Reggie tries...
...will enroll in college, and though the choice of where to go is the culmination of twelve years of schoolwork, many will make the decision knowing little about the place they choose. They must sort through a choked mailbox of color brochures from student-hungry colleges, face down a blizzard of intimidating forms, and assess parental advice that is based either on no college experience or 20-year-old impressions. Enter the college guidance counselor to champion the student's cause. Too often, though, such a paladin is battered with overwork...
...bewildered by this piece. His usual mastry of theatrical trickery has slipped, most notably during the first scene. A woman (Lucinda Childs) wanders across the front of the stage. Behind her a piece of white scrim is blown by a wind machine, representing the white wall of a terrific blizzard. A shrill voice booms through the P.A. system, then--Riiiip!--Frau von Kessel (Elizabeth Franz) and her servant tear the scrim and stick their torsos through it. It's supposed to look clever and mysterious, these two figures popping out of the waving whiteness, but it's just a cheap...
...total of five exposure-related deaths. Nonetheless, the chill caused severe hardships. More than half of Denmark's 200 inhabited islands were cut off from the mainland. Icebreakers had to work day and night to free some 15 vessels from the frozen sound between Denmark and Sweden. Following a blizzard in the Swedish province of Skane, where temperatures dipped to -11 degrees, people were warned that they risked death if they ventured outdoors...
...trend is to name teams for malevolent forces, such as the Blast, Sting, Blizzard and Blitz. Three team names celebrate disasters that destroyed much of their native locale: the Golden Bay Earthquakes, Chicago Fire and Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames. Such a breakthrough in reverse civic pride may yet induce other cities to celebrate their local disasters. Just think. The Boston Stranglers, the New York Muggers, the Washington Scams, the Los Angeles Smog...