Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...account for about 85% of all economic activity, experts project a $1 billion shortfall in the state's budget by June 1987. The government last week proposed cutting $120 million from operating expenses. Both Texas and Louisiana are facing $1 billion deficits. Says Texas Governor Mark White, in a classic understatement: "We can't take oil for granted anymore...
...generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head above any mob of imitators. Last week he lammed out for good, dying...
...film's start--should attract those alienated by the present trend of realistic cinema. Yet this Room with a View gives its audience more than a string of paired couples and crescending music at the close. An insightful study of character and society, this version of the Forster classic is not to be missed...
...team then travelled south, where it competed in the Blue-Gray Classic in Birmingham, Alabama. Harvard finished 10th in a strong field which included Southern Methodist University--the eventual champion--and USC, both ranked among the top five college teams in the nation...
...filled week, the Harvard men competed in a nonscoring dual meet against Rice, and the women ran in the Bayou Classic against squads from the South-western Conference...