Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...either had to go without Koosman on my all-card team, or give up Reggie Jackson or Pete Rose. I always made the deal. I never liked Reggie or Pete anyway...
There was always one player whose card I could never get, no matter how many packs I bought. They just never made enough Jerry Koosman cards. To complete my all-Met team, I always had to find another kid who had Kooz, and trade...
...Hollywood's hoariest traditions: when filmmakers start to tell a historical whopper they place a title card at the front of their picture, solemnly assuring us that what we are about to see is true. The ensuing lies are generally sanitizing, ennobling and inspirational. At the beginning of Walker, its creators cross their hearts and hope to die in the usual manner. But the lying that follows is of a grand and giddy kind -- the stuff of that rarest of movie genres, the mock epic...
...coup for airline passengers! That was the initial reaction in mid-October when the Department of Transportation issued its first monthly ranking of airline performance. At last, here was a way to select a carrier based on a report card for punctuality, baggage handling and overbooking. Alas, the rankings are turning out in many cases to be misleading and unfair. A primary reason, say critics, was that the Government was too vague in telling airlines how to tabulate their data, so that the carriers used widely differing criteria in deciding what to report...
...about a haunted house, Jill might ask, "Should we go in the front door, the back door or crawl in a window?" The child's choice determines the direction of the story. Extra voice tapes include Jill's Slumber Party and Jill Goes to the Mall, complete with credit card...