Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your answer would be Moses because he led his people to the Promised Land and that's just where you're going to take us, isn't it? But you can't take us to the Promised Land if you have to make a trillion zillion promises to a bunch of nosey senators along the way, now can you? Judge, you don't have to bother answering me until the end. I'm just going to ask you a series of asinine questions in an annoying, high-pitched whine...
...movie people, you're a bunch of spoiled brats!" yells a man whose car has just been rammed by a star's convertible. Yes, we nod in agreement, and they're phony too, and beneath the glamour not very happy. Tales from the Hollywood Hills, a trio of short-story adaptations set in Tinseltown during the 1930s, trots out all the beloved stereotypes while flavorfully recapturing Hollywood's legendary golden age. Then, boldly, the mini-series abandons the legend and goes for a more subtly shaded truth...
...Harvard players (or most of the Holy Cross players) were. His play-by-play went something like this: "Okay, there's a hand-off to a Harvard back, he cuts, gets a couple yards, and is brought down by a host of Cross tacklers. Okay, second down and a bunch now, there's a pitch wide right to...and so, no, he's met by a gang of tacklers, and loses a few yards...
...atrocities. Of course they are horrid, yet their intended impact reinforces, in dramatic terms, the Afrikaners' credo: white lives mean more. Piling on bogus suspense devices as Woods snakes his way toward freedom, Attenborough lets the venality of South African imperialism degenerate into a staid chase film: The Brady Bunch Flees Apartheid. Once again Attenborough has proved that the road to dull is paved with good intentions...
...absence of a professional circuit in Communist countries means that the best players in the nation compete in the Olympics, a luxury not available to the Americans and Canadians. Thus it was truly remarkable in 1980 when a bunch of rag-tag collegians thumped the Russian National Team, which routinely beat the NHL All-Stars...