Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Could the celebration have been richer if the competition had been better? America's Olympics closed with the usual expressions of hope, as the five-ring flag was passed from Los Angeles to another neutral location, Seoul, Korea, where doom is expected again in four years, and the athletes will probably come through once more. The XXIII Olympiad was handsome and bright, not completely smog-free but, as British Runner Steve Cram said, "You should see it where I live," just outside Newcastle. Bringing a world of people to Los Angeles did seem a little like fetching coals...
...captures Danny's self-contradiction. At a wedding reception in Toronto, the guests become obsessed with recalling gallows-humor stories about a Kostelec hangman who forced condemned prisoners to shave, and shave again until the blood trickled from their chins as they mustered to face their doom. Then he would shout: "Back to your cells, gentlemen. The execution is postponed...
...Inge's best plays, Sheba is slight of plot but musky with atmosphere. An alcoholic chiropractor (Philip Bosco) and his slatternly wife (Shirley Knight) live in a dreary house in the Midwest, diverted from maudlin introspection only by their boarder, a sprightly college student (Mia Dillon). Doom seeps through every dusty curtain. Although the husband is supposedly recovered, it is apparent that he is looking for an excuse to take a drink. Although the college girl is beloved as a surrogate for the couple's baby daughter who died 20 years before, it is evident that she will...
...think that the Motion Picture Association of America is right in wanting to create a PG-13 [SHOW BUSINESS, June 25]. I am 15 and was not shaken by the violence in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but three or four years ago, I would not have been able to stand some of the scenes. The age for the new rating should be not 13 but ten or eleven. While the age limit for some R-rated films should be lowered to 15 or 16, all the conflict is unnecessary now. By the time they are twelve, young...
When the Steven Spielberg film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial opened in June 1982, retailers were caught unprepared for the ravenous public demand for E.T. playthings. This time, though, everything is in place for a merchandising bonanza from the summer Spielberg blockbusters Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. More than 80 companies are cranking out millions of souvenirs ranging from sleeping bags to lunch pails emblazoned with characters from the two films. Such tony department stores as Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor are touting the official Indiana Jones hat. The popularity of Gremlins is an unexpected windfall...