Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale. Brokaw referred to him as "alive and well tonight in this race." He was even a bit flippant about Gary Hart, comparing him to "this season's hit rock-'n'-roll single." But in its newscast the next evening, the network said, in a classic left-handed compliment, that Hart "can no longer duck the title front runner." CBS's Rather emphasized Hart's success on Tuesday evening. Using a convoluted train metaphor, he opened his report by noting that Hart's candidacy "keeps moving like a fast freight," adding that Mondale...
Dorothy and Toto will be somewhere over the rainbow again, and so will the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. But OZ, which is now shooting in London, will be neither a musical nor a faithful retelling of the 1939 classic that starred Judy Garland. Based upon three of the books by Oz Creator L. Frank Baum, the $20 million "live-action adventure fantasy" promises to be something of a Star Woz, with veterans of that more modern epic creating special effects and producing the movie for Walt Disney. ("Toto, I really don't think...
...five or six 14-hour, pressure-packed days a week at the office. Rich sauces and fatty meat were his standard fare for both lunch and dinner, and exercise meant reaching under the bed to grab from his stash of pretzels and potato chips. Shragai was a classic candidate for a heart attack, and at the age of 45, he had one. Nine years later he was hospitalized for an operation to bypass five seriously blocked coronary arteries. In desperation, Shragai enrolled himself in U.C.L.A.'s Center for Health Enhancement. By changing the way he lived, he was told...
...bumps were tiny deposits of almost pure cholesterol that had accumulated under the child's skin. They are a classic sign of severe familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a genetic defect that leads to a tremendous buildup of cholesterol in the blood. One out of every 500 Americans suffers from a moderate form of this disorder, but Stormie was among the one in a million whose genetic makeup produces an extreme variety. Bilheimer was shocked to find that the child's cholesterol was at nearly nine times the normal level for someone her age. It had already taken a toll...
Admittedly the long line of classics the film finds itself up against pose a tough challenge to all involved. While undeniably classic "period" films have been made since Casablanca and Gone With the Wind, such classics are difficult to rival while remaining within the classic war story framework. Moreover, some of the film's predictability is simply a product of historical circumstances. No war film can avoid including film-reels and airraid practices, for example, and it is hard to fault the director for the limited number of responses the circumstance of war creates (Can you imagine a mother rejoicing...