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...buck up, Sox fans--your team rates to come this close again in 2054. Imagine the smile that will come to your lips when the announcers tell you, just when the game appears to be on ice, that a top-model Porsche was less than $50,000 the last time the Sox took the series to seven. William Cole, GSAS
Inside the tent, we discovered that not only did we not know anybody, but it was a cash bar. Several bartenders would sell you drinks for a buck cash instead of the two-fifty drink tickets, but once again, I missed...
...beers before going off to hypnotize the odd buffalo or save a plucky American reporter (Linda Kozlowski) from the jaws of king croc. In the urban jungle of Manhattan he is as flummoxed as King Kong -- wary of escalators, bidets and soul-man handshakes -- but eager to buck the odds. It is The Gods Must Be Crazy in whiteface, and ingratiating enough to make Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) a man for all box offices. After topping E.T.'s record take in Australia, this shambling comedy (directed by Peter Faiman) filched $8 million its first U.S. weekend. Hogan is already familiar...
There were, almost from the start, two Kings. Mr. Outside grew up in Durham, Me., where his mother had moved to care for her aging parents. He was oversized and ungainly, with a thatch of unruly black hair, buck teeth and thick glasses, the one who was predictably chosen last in sandlot games. Mr. Inside was the fatherless boy who held a lot of "anger that has never been directed. In my inward life, I still boil a lot." So it is no surprise that many of King's books could be fairly called "The Revenge of the Nerds...
...half of 1986 has once again been a bloodbath, with losses of $765 million. Says Kahn: "Some diminution of intense price cutting is probably necessary and healthy." Agrees Dan Smith, an executive with the Dallas-based International Airline Passengers Association: "Even consumers realize that airlines have to make a buck...