Word: clunkers
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...line, officially named the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, in 1970 to give America's struggling railroads a break. While hauling freight is potentially profitable, carting people around has long been a money-losing business. Amtrak's infusion of federal cash helped turn the line from an ancient, rusty clunker into a relatively sleek machine...
Alumni Association officials begin gearing up early for June's Commencement. Director David A. Aloian '49 promises that the '83 Commencement speaker won't be "a clunker like the last two, nosier...
Italians claim they invented the typewriter in 1855. Austrians say their own Peter Mitterhofer developed the original machine in 1864. Americans are stuck with a trio, Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule, who constructed a practical typewriter in 1867. The gap is wide between their early clunker, with wooden type bars that fell back into place because of gravity, and IBM's fanciest $1,035 Selectric III with variable pitch, self-erasure and changeable type balls. But alas, even IBM's latest is burdened by Sholes' greatest yet most troublesome legacy: an eccentric keyboard...
...only good thing about this movie. Ambitions Burt Reynolds takes on writing, directing, and acting chores in this clunker about a man with a terminal disease, and poor Burt fails at two out of three (guess which ones). This is the idea for a comedy...
...large success two summers ago, is alive and well and living in Chicago in this sequel. Unfortunately, the movie is not well at all and cannot even be said to be alive. One expects little enough from sequels, but even that bare minimum is not attained by this clunker...