Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another film about a pair of lovable oldies in the twilight of their days, starring two Hollywood legends who had never worked together before. Detect a trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems...
...This year the World Series came around to St. Louis and Milwaukee, interchangeably dreary, cold and beery cities in the Central time zone, not without style, just without cynicism. At games in St. Louis, August A. Busch Jr., the octogenarian brewer who owns the Cardinals, was delivered to his box seat each day aboard a beer wagon pulled by eight clomping Clydesdales. Able to be thrilled by a buckboard, the people of St. Louis were also not too sophisticated to sing Hello, Redbirds, Well Hello, Redbirds along with Carol Channing or clap in rhythm every time the organist struck...
...accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
...creating them against the Bruins--had two near misses on similar plays that could have tied the game before the half ended. Two minutes after the Brown goal, junior halfback Leo Lanzillo won a ball on the right wing and crossed to captain Lance Ayrault cutting into the penalty box from the left. The senior striker connected on a diving header that slid inches past the right post...
Despite ballot-box appeal, the antinuke movement is worried...