Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever figured out how to make much of a buck out of Thanksgiving. That is why it stands as a tranquil oasis amid the tawdry tinsel trappings of modern life...
This week he invades U.S. movie theaters (in New York City and Los Angeles, with a dozen other cities to follow next month). He will buck the odds as he did when making his film -- as Henry V did on his French campaign -- and with no smaller an appetite for success. Did Olivier make a landmark film of Henry V when he played in and directed it in 1944? Then the new Olivier would do it again -- bloodier and maybe better -- in hopes of luring the unlettered moviegoer for whom Shakespeare is a synonym for Sominex...
Philadelphia must depend on sharp-shooter Hersey Hawkins and mouth-shooter Charles Barkley for its playoff hopes to be realized. For Washington, only Jeff Malone deserves mention in any worthwhile publication. And New Jersey, well, minus Buck Williams and with problem-children Sam Bowie and Joe Barry Carroll, Coach Bill Fitch will probably be hoping by January that he was back coaching in the Garden. Here's hoping Mookie Blaylock can keep the fans laughing in the Meadowlands, and not because of his play...
...while there was massed clucking over the size of Reagan's fee and Ford's continued service on corporate boards, the Communist world was declaring the profit motive holy writ. Not let a retired President participate in capitalism and make a noble buck? That would be a sort of excommunication from America...
...Irish will put up a good fight, even when they're shadowboxing. So Christy Brown had a head start in his battle against petrifying cerebral palsy. There were other crippling odds to buck. He was the tenth of 22 children born to a sod-poor Dublin bricklayer. For the first nine years of Christy's life, his siblings tended him as they would a houseplant: feed it, water it and keep it out of the way. Only his mother dared nurture him with her fierce, uncompromising love, and one day Christy stuck a piece of chalk in his left foot...