Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handsome face focus on the thrill of speed and risk. Nor is this challenge confined to a roadway's hard curve; it applies as well to his career in the movies, even if it means taking dangerous curves toward roles that might confound his fans. This day, after a dozen laps, Cruise sees a dime, stops on it and emerges from the Lumina to say hello to a visitor. He extends a hand and flashes the million-dollar smile -- or, to judge from the worldwide take of his past four movies, the $1.035 billion smile. He points...
...born on the third of July, 1962, the third child of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters: Lee Anne, 30; Cass, 26; and Marian, 28. Dad had to follow the work, and the family followed Dad; young Tommy attended a dozen schools before he was twelve. Cruise learned to adapt. "I'd assume the role of what I thought kids were, what I thought was In. Sports was one way of fitting in. But I was never Mr. All-Star Athlete. It was something that got me out, as opposed to staying...
...decline of the weekly LIFE, endless jockeying in middle management, assorted ideas for new magazines that failed or were never tried -- the tale bogs down. But Donovan gives readers a candid sense of how decisions were made, complete with glimpses of pressure being applied (and resisted) by half a dozen Presidents and countless tycoons...
...second sheet announced a silent demonstration on Dec. 5, Constitution Day. I decided to attend. In Pushkin Square I found a few dozen people standing around the statue. At 6 o'clock, half of those present, myself included, removed our hats and stood in silence. (The other half, I later realized, were KGB.) After a minute or so I walked over to the monument and read the inscription aloud...
Mike Harper trudged through the dirty snow in downtown Warsaw searching for a fur hat to protect him against the icy wind. But among the meager selections in half a dozen stores, he could not find one hat that fitted. Harper, who runs a large food company in Omaha, refused to give up. He decided to offer one hatmaker the equivalent of an extra $10 in zlotys to whip something up by next morning. The man showed little enthusiasm, however, his sullen face reflecting the effects of 45 years of Communist rule. Harper left the store doubting that he would...