Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pickup truck. The deepest injury is to Andy's authorial ego, when his book turns out stinky and she writes next year's best seller. In Smith's bruised glare you can see the befuddled pain of anyone married to a blockhead with writer's block. But that's just subplot. The main plot is barely sodded: sound effects in place of wit, and rural goofuses who wouldn't dare show their faces on Newhart...
...deep, that it is close to impossible to get out. Protectionism would clearly trigger a wave of retaliatory measures from Japan that would send the U.S. and the world into an even deeper depression than it is now experiencing. And Japan's control in America may prove a stumbling block to any attempt to reverse its gains...
...Cash and "Crocodile" Dundee, U.S. sales of Australian wines topped 1 million gallons last year, more than triple the volume of 1986. "People who have experimented with Australian wines have been very happy," says Jon Fredrikson, a San Francisco wine consultant. "They're the new kids on the block being watched very closely. Word gets around...
...crackle of machine-gun fire and the crump of mortar shells reverberated in the narrow alleyways of Beirut's southern suburbs. Figures in camouflage fatigues crouched behind the crumbling concrete-block walls of abandoned apartment buildings, clutching Kalashnikovs and scanning the area ahead for signs of movement before advancing. Red headbands identified the men as members of Hizballah, the disciplined and fanatical Shi'ite militia supported by Iran. After three weeks of combat, Hizballah's militants, led by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, had seized control of virtually the entire area of Beirut's southern suburbs from the Syrian-backed Amal militia...
...credibility faced its biggest challenge. The trick was to avoid doing a Jerry Lewis-like routine of a man impersonating a burbling brat. Hanks wanted his twelve-year-old to be one who just happens to look 20 years older than the other kids on the block. "The hardest part -- and also the appeal -- of the role was to strip myself of all the adult layers," he says. "It was to regain the kid's sense of play. I dug up memories -- or scars -- of myself in junior high school...