Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...available. "There are charities and agencies that will take care of them," says Jennifer Hassan of the Red Cross. "Yet most won't even go near these organizations because they know they have no excuse for not working." But others are disabled and cannot work; still others are eager to carry a bag, wash a window, weed a yard, pump some gas, for whatever they can earn. William Harris, 50, works the parking lot of a Ralphs supermarket in Hollywood. Wearing a gray pinstripe vest, tuxedo shirt, vermilion shoes and blue Yankees cap, he asks customers if he can take...
What's going on here? Are young moviegoers tiring of summer comedies and eager for a little dog-days shock therapy? Not likely: the season's other horror movies have been flops. Then is the answer just Freddy, the perfect freak-out counselor for an evening of summer camp? Not quite. Sure, he's got loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture...
...Canada dispatched large contingents from 15 print and broadcasting organizations each, but the Japanese outdid them in New Orleans with six networks and twelve newspapers. "It shows one thing," said Toshio Mizushima, a correspondent for the Tokyo-based daily Yomiuri Shimbun, "that the Japanese viewers and readers are very eager to know what is really going on in this election." So are the Europeans. The C-SPAN network's video verite coverage of the podium in Atlanta was beamed by satellite to 22 European countries, prompting hundreds of viewers in those countries to write to the C-SPAN offices...
...crucial respect, Quayle may be much like Bush. Deferential and eager to please, Quayle is more likely to be the kind of No. 2 Bush was and yearns to clone now: blindly loyal and deeply grateful. Already the exuberant Quayle seems willing to run on the list of trivial traits the Bush camp keeps hailing him for: youth (if elected, he will be the third youngest Vice President, behind John Breckinridge and Richard Nixon); good looks (made for TV, not the silver screen -- Robert Redford may have had a point when he wrote to Quayle complaining about the overdone comparisons...
Forgive George Shultz if he is eager to get home. After the Secretary of State flew to La Paz last week, suspected drug lords detonated a bomb as his motorcade drove into the Bolivian capital. The dynamite blast missed Shultz's armored Cadillac but shattered the windows of several cars, including the one carrying his wife Helena. Unintimidated, Shultz delivered a speech that praised the government's new anticocaine measures...