Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players were, not to be cliched, blue-collar. Dave Butz, Daryl Grant, and Joe Jacoby busted their helmets for a win. Of course, some players had flair: Manley and Green were always spectacular, but they were spectacular for the team's sake...
...Sicilian countryside, helicopters clattered overhead in the early- morning dark as Italian police swooped in to raid a luxurious villa. In the streets of Palermo, Milan, Naples, up and down Italy last week, hundreds of narcotics investigators fanned out to collar scores of reputed Mafia drug traffickers. And across the Atlantic, U.S. FBI agents rounded up still more suspects in eight cities. A trail that began in Buffalo and Philadelphia three years ago had led the two countries to crack open a powerful transatlantic drug ring accused of flooding the U.S. with Italian heroin smuggled in wine bottles, tomato cans...
...emotion and reminds us of the reason the artists got into making music in the first place. At the same time, no one ought to be trapped in a past that no longer relates to their very cushy present--Bruce should once and for all quit with the blue--collar crap-but it seems that when sincerity is real, the apple should never fall far from it's original tree of inspiration...
...usual with a new network hit, Roseanne has been widely hailed as a TV breakthrough. The program's honest portrayal of blue-collar family life is, indeed, unusual for network TV, though hardly unprecedented. Its forebears range from The Honeymooners and All in the Family to, more recently, the Fox network's raunchy satire Married . . . with Children. Still, the show's grungy ambience and gleeful puncturing of TV ideals of happy domesticity have made it the most daring new sitcom of the fall...
...University made an extremely unwise move in deciding to drop its appeal against the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). President Bok now appears foolish after investing Harvard's reputation and moral weight against unionizing Harvard's more than 3500 pink-collar workers...