Word: glue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deprived of its glue, the Crimson midfield fell apart. "We really missed her support behind the forward line," Maureen Finn, who moved back from attack to link to replace Velie, said. "Ann Velie's shoes are hard to fill...
...Americans, Reagan again stood on the platform, this time with Bush at his side. The very fact that they were together indicated the political changes in the men and, more important, in their party. Both G.O.P. wings have set aside their differences to form a practical alliance. The glue that holds this coalition together is based largely on economic issues. But it also is helped by the poor performance of the Carter Administration and the fact that the new Republicanism is coming to life at a time when traditional party loyalty is waning, making shifts of allegiance easier for voters...
...here but that doesn't matter. The best choice these neophyte directors made was using serious actors. Aside from Graves, Robert "Name Your Game" Stack fills in as the pilot who's handed the assignment of guiding flight 209 to the ground and Lloyd "Sea Hunt" Bridges plays the glue-sniffing, heavy-drinking chain-smoking director of the Chicago airport. Mixed in with the emergency, as one might guess, is a romance between the Air Force pilot turned taxi driver, played by the ingenuous Robert Hays, and the stewardess who takes over the co-pilot's chair from Kareem Abdul...
...song, one of the hostesses knocks the child's life-support system loose with a merry swoop of her guitar. On the ground, an increasingly harassed airport manager (Lloyd Bridges) reverts to bad habits as the pressure increases ("I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"). There is also, naturally, a senior pilot (Robert Stack) who is expected to talk the plane in. He is supposed to be lovably gruff, but is, in fact, just plain meanspirited. Veteran Actors Bridges, Graves and Stack are all wonderfully alive to the opportunity to send up roles they have...
...supply of ammunition. Soon the inside flesh of my trigger finger was worn off, and I was wiping my blood from the trigger when I cleaned my revolver at the end of the day. I obtained a product called Nu-Skin, a quick-drying plastic coating that resembled clear glue, and coated my trigger finger with it, then fired until that, too, was worn...