Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobody cried, not even Strange, though he did last week. He beat Faldo in the play-off by four strokes but really by something extra that the Englishman well understood. Recalling his own day of glory at the British Open in Scotland, Faldo said gracefully, "That was my dream as a kid. This must have been Curtis...
James Earl Jones shows an unexpected comic side as Akeem's royally out-of-touch father, who delivers such lines to his pampered son as, "I tied my own shoes once. It is an overrated experience." Shari Headley, as Akeem's dream queen, is pleasant, but her character is as upright as Akeem, which means that she is funny only because she is ignorant of Akeem's true identity...
...Framed Roger Rabbit combines live action and animation with a dexterity that Walt Disney could only dream about...
...defied the murderous Frankie Carbo and helped break the monopolist Jim Norris, died in 1985 at 77 and left Tyson in his will. "More than me or Patterson," says D'Amato's other old champion, the light-heavyweight Jose Torres, "Tyson is a clone of Cus's dream. Cus changed both of us, but he made Mike from scratch." In Brooklyn, Tyson had drawn the absent father and saintly mother, the standard neighborhood issue. "You fought to keep what you took," he says, "not what you bought." His literary pedigree is by Charles Dickens out of Budd Schulberg. When Tyson...
...when at 30 she achieved her dream and joined NBC News as a Senate correspondent and weekend anchor, Savitch still lacked the ear-to-the-ground reporting skills needed to cover a demanding beat. Hired to add some allure to , the news division's stodgy image, she was also expected to break stories on Capitol Hill and provide sparkle at numerous public appearances. She quickly foundered. "The people who brought her in here abandoned her," said Tom Brokaw. Yet even as she was being demoted for incompetence, the network flacks and a willing press continued to tout...