Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the past decade, autumn was harvest time for the serious moviegoer, the season for films with hearts of humanism and minds dreaming of Oscars. Often those dreams were fulfilled: four of the last seven winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire) were released in major cities between Labor Day and the end of November. In 1980 viewers could see Raging Bull, Private Benjamin and The Elephant Man. Last year there were The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ragtime and Absence of Malice...
...erstwhile Starlet Chris Noel recreated the Armed Forces Radio show she had broadcast to U.S. servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis. For 90 minutes, he played the banjo and trumpet, sang soul songs and Danke Schön, danced and winked. Said one Wisconsin vet: "I wouldn't have picked Wayne Newton. But I don't know why we're here either...
Like some of the wilder prophets of the Old Testament-like Hosea or Micah or perhaps Jeremiah-Eliezer Perelman was a visionary possessed by one irresistible idea. He even spoke once of the transcendent moment in which it came to him: "Suddenly, like lightning before my eyes, my thoughts flew across the Balkans . . . to Palestine, and I heard a . . voice calling to me: The revival of Israel and its language in the land of its forefathers...
...irresistible smile, an appealing way. He could also fight. After 25 victories, no losses and almost three years, Leonard stopped Wilfred Benitez in the 15th round for the welterweight championship of the world, or at least of the World Boxing Council. At the moment of victory, he flew to a corner of the ring and jumped onto the ropes as if into the arms of everyone...
...both carrots and sticks last week to avoid the walkout. He first sent Canadian workers a strongly worded warning: "We will take a strike if we must, even though we are aware that it could put us out of business." Some employees responded by burning the letter. lacocca then flew to Toronto to make a personal but unavailing eleventh-hour appeal...