Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year's crop of heroes is the promise which America's youth holds for the future. Reagan praises Richard Cavoli, a young science and medical expert, Tyrone Ford, an accomplished 12-year-old muscian, Shelly Butler, an honors student who saved a girl from being run over by a bus, and Trevor Farrell, a 13-year-old who aids Philadelphia's homeless...
...times The Trip to Bountiful resembles an extended advertisement for Greyhound. As an old woman travels to her childhood home, we are shown innumerable shots of a bus outlined against the sublime Texas landscape. This cinematography is skillfully executed but too often drifts into triteness. One gets the feeling that there is a little too much Message (with a capital M) here...
...constantly alerted to the fact that she is a heartless, tacky bitch, but the character is so overwrought that, despite some hints of depth, we never see enough complexity really to identify with her. Ditto for Thelma (Rebecca De Mornay), a young woman whom Page befriends in a bus station on the way to Bountiful. De Mornay's character is so unflinchingly sweet that when she suddenly and inexplicably disappears from the movie, we are left with a saccharine aftertaste...
Steve Bzomowsky. Head coach. Sample of players' comments: "You really want to work hard for him", "He's really cool and really wants to win", "He lets you play the game", "He never raises his voice". Triple threat as coach, bus-driver, and practice player. Coached team to a first-time-in-memory victory over the Harvard Classics baskeball club last month after suffering early season drubbing by the same. Widespread player praise for showing excellent "Boston driving" skills...
...real commitment," the team's bus driver/coach was saying, "they practice 10 to 15 hours a week, sometimes at crazy hours...