Word: creed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's been plenty of time. It's not like this shantytown just popped up," Creed said. He said a recent student attempt to raise the divestment issue at a meeting of university trustees was "rebuffed...
...Sullivan principles are defunct. They really no longer apply," said Howard Creed, a senior taking part in the protest...
...erection of the structure outside the university's sociology department offices has created some dissension among campus activists who feel the action may seriously damage the divestment movement's image at the university, Creed said...
...this film's influential power lies in its simplicity. The plot has been stripped down as far as possible. Russia has decided to throw its best amateur boxer, Ivan Drago (played by the amazingly-Aryan Dolph Lungren) into the circle of professional boxing. Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the bad guy in parts I and II and the helpful friend in installment III, decides to recapture his old glory by fighting the massive Russian in an exhibition match. Drago kills (I'm not kidding) Apollo in the ring, and Rocky sets off to Russia to avenge his friend. One, two, three...
Stallone further pares down the film by eliminating all the interesting characters. Creed of course is dead, as is his manager Micky Goldmill, who bought it in Rocky III. Adrian Balboa (Talia Shire) has approximately five lines and the dreaded Drago even less. In place of the grimy hodgepodge that peopled the now primitive Rocky I, Stallone gives us a talking robot maid, droves of stony-faced KGB agents and a shadowy figure in the royal box who bcars marked resemblence to current Soviet Premier Gorbachev...