Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described his two seasons' journey, effectively speaking for Gerry Faust as well, though Notre Dame's fourth-year coach probably wishes he had only one ghost to negotiate...
...YORK -- Unbeaten Larry Holmes, casting aside Gerrie Coetzee, will fight James "Bonecrusher" Smith for the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title Nov. 9 when he continues his quest to catch the ghost of Rocky Marciano...
...worker bonuses when the company broke the $100 million mark in earnings. Faced with the U.S. auto recession and declining demand for steel, Mulroney in 1982 shut down a company mine at Schefferville in northeastern Quebec. The closing put 285 miners out of work and turned Schefferville into a ghost town of boarded-up stores and FOR SALE signs...
Prince's performing entourage still includes young women attired in flash-happy lingerie. But Prince has dispensed with performing in his leopardskin skivvies, and for the movie camera, dresses up in high-heeled boots, ruffled shirts, brocaded jackets. If anyone notices the similarly suited ghost of Jimi Hendrix floating about, so much the better. Hendrix's classic Purple Haze has left all sorts of echoes around Prince's neighborhood, and not just in the music. Prince has both mastered the Hendrix style and contemporized it; he has become something of a past master at haze in general...
Certain expectations, models of an almost Freudian kind, do ghost around just below the surface of political consciousness. Why is Ronald Reagan so popular? Why is he, as some say, coated with Teflon, so that his blunders don't stick to him? One reason (impossible to prove but worth considering) is that Reagan strikes many Americans, almost without their knowing it, as the perfect idealized father. He is that strong, amiable guy who never raises his voice, is wonderfully sure of himself and makes self-deprecating jokes even when he gets shot. And if he does mine harbors...