Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carried their standard trounced by a well-packaged Reagan, the chairmen have come around to Hart's point-of-view. They apparently see his tactic--simply evoking a nostalgic sense of the past--as the weapon of choice in the political battles of the future, rather than an outright fight against Reaganite principles...
...soft drink battle is heating up in sunny California, and the UCLA student store is in the middle of the fire. But the fight is not over new or old Coke, or even between Coke and Pepsi. It is, strangely enough, about apartheid...
...decided to throw its best amateur boxer, Ivan Drago (played by the amazingly-Aryan Dolph Lungren) into the circle of professional boxing. Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the bad guy in parts I and II and the helpful friend in installment III, decides to recapture his old glory by fighting the massive Russian in an exhibition match. Drago kills (I'm not kidding) Apollo in the ring, and Rocky sets off to Russia to avenge his friend. One, two, three; Fight, Kill, Revenge...
After the messy business of plot has been taken care of (in a scant 30 minutes), Stallone gets down to his bread and butter, training and fight scenes. The last hour of this short film is filled with flashbacks from the first three Rocky incarnations, scenes of the Italian Stallion hauling a sled full of chopped wood up a 90-degree cliff in training, and finally the American boxer stopping hundreds of punishing sounding blows with his forehead and chin and upper cheekbones. Apparently, Rocky thinks that masochistic training strengthens the bones in the human head to the extent that...
...Schulenberg has spent years recreating the communities of natural prairie vegetation that once covered the Midwest. He has gathered seed by hand, replanting, and weeding acre by acre to save these species and their ecosystem from extinction. The prairie grasses--which can rejuvenate over-cultivated land, fight erosion, and provide inexpensive grazing fodder and ground cover--were all but wiped out by intensive agriculture and the introduction of non-native species...