Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ends included, the offensive linemen are the "Hogs," a brand name incorporated by Starke, who did not waste his Columbia education. The undersized receivers, notably 5-ft. 7-in. Alvin Garrett (cut thrice elsewhere), are the "Smurfs." Those who synchronize their celebrations in the end zone are the "Fun Bunch." After being strafed in a 48-47 loss at Green Bay, the defensive backs took to calling themselves "the Pearl Harbor Crew...
...team, customarily dresses as though he lives in a duckblind, but he took off his camouflage when the linebackers put theirs on. The only member in his club (34-year-old running backs who get stronger as they go), Riggins is an honorary Hog but avoids the Fun Bunch. His touchdown spike is the most distinctive in the game: he flips the ball to the nearest official. The ceremony has been performed 29 times this season...
...still liked the finished films. And he is enthusiastic about Christine. "I wanted to go back and see it over again," the author says. "I've been lucky. I've had six adaptations of my novels, and there hasn't been a real dog in the bunch." (His only major reservation was with Stanley Kubrick's elegant, brooding 1980 version of The Shining; King found the director too "pragmatic and rational.") Though he has finished three drafts of a screenplay for The Stand, King vows that he has given up trying to adapt his own novels...
...verdict and sentence and convinced that Geter was a victim of racism. A dozen of them, mostly whites, organized a defense committee and raised more than $11,000 in the young engineer's support. "This is not a tightly knit organization," declared Engineer Wendell Crom, "just a bunch of people who know the man is not guilty." The N.A.A.C.P., alerted by a South Carolina State College dean, was also outraged and dispatched Lawyer Hairston to aid in the defense. He and court-appointed Attorney Edwin Sigel scored a small success in November 1982 at a hearing...
...bunch of mean muthas break down doors, dismantle fire escapes, throw people off balconies-and these are the good guys. They are the drivers for the D.C. Cab Co. One black dude (Charlie Barnett) gets scared and screams, "I'm goin' to nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with...