Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of dejd vu is everywhere. Chelsea House has sold 50,000 copies of the adventures of Buck Rogers and 27,000 copies of the famous cases of Dick Tracy. Twenty First Century Communications has revived Liberty, which died in 1950, as "the nostalgia magazine." Columbia and Decca report exuberant sales of their re-releases of rare old recordings, from Bessie Smith to Alice Faye. More than 300 radio stations have brought back the serials of the '30s and '40s, morality plays for two generations of American children. Once again Lament Cranston, the Shadow, knows what evil lurks...
...were found on the base-one of them stark naked, snared in the perimeter wire. U.S. casualties? The first thing Schulte noticed was that "there were very few people who could walk." All twelve officers had been killed or wounded, and an enlisted man with the equivalent rank of buck sergeant had assumed command. Only at daybreak did the full extent of the massacre become clear. The official count, which seemed on the low side to some officials, was 33 dead and 76 wounded of 200 Americans. Of the 28 South Vietnamese troops in the base -which...
...promisingly enough, the flight of adolescents, who each summer descend on Greenwich Village to get away from their parents and out on their own. The film opens with a massive audition for potential folk singers, then switches to the resolutely suburban home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tyne (Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin), who come to the tardy realization that their daughter has skipped. Tyne and his best friend (Tony Harvey) set out to track her down. They stumble into a local bar, get loaded and reel home, where they have a generous number of nightcaps with their spouses...
...participants know, it is a real audition-and the fumblings and failings become the source of some crude, easy laughs. In partial compensation there are a couple of very funny performances by Vincent Schiavelli, playing a freak who tutors the S.P.F.C. in the art of blowing grass, and Buck Henry, whose acting shows shrewd restraint and a gratifying lack of the grandstand mugging that marred his appearance in Catch...
...started to bake a victory with three runs in the first two innings, but then the Bosox, gettin'tough when the goin is rough, made the scorekeeper work for his buck with five explosive scores in the third that turned the tide of battle...