Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quipped and jived and, when Singer Jennifer Holliday was delayed, improvised his own burlesqued version of Gimme a Pigfoot. It also cried a river. The emotional climax came when Patti LaBelle sang You'll Never Walk Alone to Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta, who sat in a box with tears streaming down her cheeks...
...performers seemed as thrilled as the audience. Said Mary Wells: "It's like your house was condemned and then all of a sudden remodeled and reopened as history." But everyone acknowledged that for the comeback to last, box- office-caliber talent would have to cooperate. Asked if he would perform at the theater again, Stevie Wonder said, "I don't know." LaBelle warned of the need for sacrifice: "If we let our egos stay behind and let our pocketbooks stay empty for a while and just go do things for feeling and spirit and causes, I think the Apollo will...
...Burt Reynolds shoot-'em-up, Stick, is a commercial and cinematic clunker. Charles Bronson has not had a big U.S. box-office success in years. Steve McQueen is long dead. Meanwhile Code of Silence, Chuck Norris' third movie in eight months, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous...
...make these cuts," he said. "The President didn't, and I certainly didn't." Though the Pentagon does not yet know what it will do without, the vote seems sure to slow the U.S. military buildup that was one of Reagan's proudest accomplishments throughout his first term (see box...
...Most recently, beginning last January, it was raised by some Senate Republicans and Democrats. Secretary of State George Shultz had been cool to such a step on the grounds that it would not bring enough pressure for change in Nicaragua. Reagan has long maintained that embargoes are ineffective (see box): his Administration called off Jimmy Carter's 1981 grain-sales ban against the Soviet Union and rejects economic sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime as counterproductive...