Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironic that Green Bay, which has made football a municipal religion, has become a purgatory for its coach. Part of the reason is that the ghost of the revered Vince Lombardi still haunts the town. During the '60s he led the then awesome Packers to five National Football League championships and gave Green Bay an excuse to call itself "Titletown, U.S.A." Even now noon Masses are canceled on Sundays when Packer road games are telecast back home at that hour; music piped through the halls of the local Ramada Inn is supplanted on Sunday afternoons by radio coverage...
Sand comes equipped with a financially harassed brother-in-law (Michael Pataki) who lives in the failed subdivision he designed ("the only FHA-approved ghost town"). Pataki's wife (Penny Marshall) provides another standard element in the Moore formula, a voice for the reality principle, keeping everyone's fantasies within bounds. Trying to borrow money to keep a perpetual-student sister in school, Pataki inquires whether Marshall would like to see the girl "out in the streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater...
...gave up all but the ghost yesterday, yielding timidly, 7-2, to Boog Powell and the Baltimore Orioles in Fenway Park, and falling five games off the pace with ten days left in the campaign...
...reasons, enrollments have already started to shrink, but the situation will get worse in the years to come. John Silber, president of Boston University, predicts that some 200 smaller colleges, accommodating an average of 5,000 students each, will have to close, and many larger institutions will become academic ghost towns. Anticipating the coming pinch, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts has cut three buildings and $100 million out of its $350 million building program...
...ordination of eleven priestesses will require only a modest change in our liturgy: Glory be to the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Bella Abzug...