Word: goof
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Take it straight from Jackson Browne, 34, sardonic explorer of all byways of the heart: these sounds are the mating calls of lawyers in love. The song title may sound like a goof, but Lawyers in Love is, in fact, a particularly neat juggling act from rock's foremost romantic prestidigitator. Part departure and part consolidation, it is the sturdy cornerstone of one of the year's strongest albums...
...defense of her virginity as he is in pursuit of a championship. That, however, completes the list of the film's novelties. As usual, many brawls and gags are thrown in. Reynolds makes these films with a group of good buddies, and as outtakes of on-set goof-offs run over the credits show, they have fun. But the products increasingly resemble the snapshots that guys pass around when they return from a fishing trip. You can almost hear: "Well, you really have to have been there...
Sloan offers some tidbits not widely known about Agee. Examples: he dropped out of Stanford after his freshman year with some Cs and a D in Spanish and was turned down by Harvard once before getting accepted. Sloan describes Agee, 45, as an aging boy wonder who is as goof prone as the next guy. The author points out that while Agee was chief financial officer of Boise Cascade, the company used questionable accounting methods in land acquisitions. Boise Cascade lost almost $300 million in 1971 and 1972, more than half its net worth at the time...
...serious hat is not a masquerade, not a goof and not an announcement that while a man may look like a middle-aged New York City account executive, he harbors a West Texan in his soul, the real interior galoot made manifest in the feathered Stetson that sits on the bar. The serious hat is the opposite of a disguise. It is a working piece of clothes and an adjunct of character...
...cost to Britain was high: 255 killed, 777 wounded and an estimated $1.4 billion worth of ships and equipment lost in combat. In addition, nagging uncertainties about the war have remained. Was it preventable? Had Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher failed to anticipate the Argentine threat? Did the Foreign Office goof? Was the Intelligence Service at fault? Those questions, and others like them, have haunted British politics since the war and could have damaged Thatcher in the general election she is expected to call this year...