Word: fording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, when movies are not so grand, male icons come in two models. The comics (Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy) trade in hip facetiousness, in sitcom-size emotions, in the suave hustling of attitude. The hunks (Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood) go crusading for the Grail, the heavyweight title, the urban psycho, but have few communal roots; they are loners, in quest only of the quest. Suspended between these two types is young Tom Cruise -- a certified star in search of an enduring identity...
Snyder lost his respectability and his job as a television tout when he branched out into anthropology and started handicapping black athletes' thighs. Previously, neither CBS nor its audience appeared to mind his old gambling conviction. (Nobody cares or even recalls that President Ford also pardoned Jimmy.) Softened memories are measures of attitudes...
...four living ex-Presidents -- Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon -- Reagan alone can boast of an exit from power in good health, both political and physical, and after two full terms of general peace and prosperity. What's more, he even liked...
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...