Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...righthanded fast-baller (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag), Armstrong arrived at the Reds' camp this spring full of enthusiasm and good deeds. "I've waited 22 years for an opportunity to pitch in the major leagues," he says, meaning he must have been contemplating it at the age of one. "He'd run through that wall if you asked him to," smiles Manager Pete Rose, who has finished running through walls himself. But Jack Armstrong will probably begin the season in the minors, in some small and scrubby place appropriate to bright starts...
...Bunny, played to comically cartoonish proportions by Trachta, is so caught up in the world of movies that she hardly notices the world of reality. The juxtaposition of these two fine performances is absurdly wonderful, as when Bunny indignantly interrupts Bananas' comparison of electric shock therapy to a concentration camp oven to describe "Doris Day's Night of Terror," when the starlet couldn't find her curlers anywhere...
Unless the University steps in to support PBH with a financial boost, fiscal and physical dangers may result from PBH's over-hasty expansion. The dangers became apparent last July when a PBH van carrying summer camp children flipped over on the Mass. Turnpike. The van was filled to double the legal capacity because, according to officials, PBH did not have enough money to buy more vans. Although the 29 children and counselors sustained minor injuries, a major tragedy was narrowly escaped. The University and PBH cannot allow risks like these to occur simply for lack of money or poor...
...These include pop entertainments like Raiders of the Lost Ark, cult faves like Star Trek IV and children's classics like Lady and the Tramp (the biggest-selling movie yet released on video). Industry observers believe E.T., with its enduring family appeal, will wind up in the low-priced camp...
Still, the high purpose that characterized the anti-Marcos uprising has dissipated. In 1986, behind the yellow, dusty walls of a local military camp, Aquino broke ground for a "People's Church" to commemorate the revolution. The only thing built, however, was a billboard announcing the coming construction. Months passed. Coups were attempted and failed. Soot gathered on the neglected, peeling panel. In the end, vandals defaced it, and a strong wind knocked it down...