Word: deked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vantage point that convinces him things are moving up for the U.S. "There is a good feeling in the country despite the problems," Ford said one morning at breakfast. He talked alternately about the world today and as it was when he was a student living at the Deke house, just a couple of blocks up the road. Ronald Reagan's economic plans would work, insisted Ford, if the American people wanted them to work. "That is more important than all the technical things, all this micro-and macroeconomics," he said. "There is just no way to equate that...
...does this same man (Rutger Hauer) single out of the huge team of police pursuing him the one man, a fellow called Deke, who poses a deadly threat to him and then acquire a detailed dossier on him? Granted, Deke is played by sullen Sylvester Stallone, who tends to stand out in a crowd. Still, Deke has a moody, unexplained thing about not wanting to shoot anyone, so it is strange that the terrorist decides to become obsessed with...
...Nighthawks is so moronically written and directed, so entirely without wit or novelty, that there is plenty of time to wonder about its many missing explanations. Also missing is the leading lady -Lindsay Wagner, who is supposed to be Deke's beloved but has only two brief scenes. Also absent are the charm and style Billy Dee Williams might have brought to his role as Deke's partner...
Jubilant giants, at that. "The shuttle will become the DC-3 of space," exulted veteran Astronaut Deke Slayton, boss of orbital flight-test crews, referring to the sturdy Douglas aircraft that opened new routes for commercial aviation in the mid-1930s. Columbia's maiden space voyage brought to mind the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh's lone-eagle crossing of the Atlantic, even the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, which would turn a land of remote frontiers into a nation. Princeton's prophet of space colonization, Physicist Gerard...
After Sara Fischer drew the defenseman out with a nice deke, the right winger took Fischer's feed and rifled a wrist shot which Derboghosian managed to knock down and clear in the ensuing scramble in front...