Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold is media saturation, not great reviews. In the movie business, the still, small voice of the critic is . . . still small. The movie-critic TV shows -- Siskel & Ebert and their clones -- have some influence, at least as consumer alerts, because they devote much of their time to running film clips. But the print critics are hardly relevant to Hollywood. They may be able to help a small film, but they can't break a big one. "You always want a happy Friday," one studio exec says of critical raves. "But if the movie is an audience pleaser, it can overcome...
...that the Pentagon refuses even to admit that it exists. Although the Air Force is about to unveil its B-2 Stealth bomber, deep secrecy surrounds the smaller but equally advanced F-19, also known as the Stealth fighter. Even so, aviation buffs who study the Pentagon know a great deal about the covert craft. Novelist Tom Clancy featured it in his best seller Red Storm Rising, and Testor Corp. is selling detailed plastic-model F-19 kits for $9.50 each. Best of all, MicroProse, a software company based in Hunt Valley, Md., has produced a $69 computer program that...
Then there is his blazing intensity. Whenever he sets foot on a course, he says, "it's as though I am going for my first trophy." For golf's Great White Shark, each tournament is an opportunity to recapture the "indescribable feeling" of walking the last few holes while in contention to win. It is then that the crowd seems to recede as Norman's concentration grows and he falls into that state of tunnel vision the pros call "owl's eyes." Pumped with adrenaline, he is usually hitting shots breathtakingly farther toward the end of a tournament. Nicklaus likens...
...campaign in which the bumbling incumbent Republican David Karnes declared that Nebraska needs "fewer farmers," and admitted he felt so inexperienced that he considered Dan Quayle an "elder statesman," former Democratic Governor Bob Kerrey did not need great strengths of his own to grab Karnes' Senate seat. Yet the charismatic Kerrey has charm and spontaneity that seem to transcend the issues. In a predominantly Republican state, Kerrey won while opposing SDI, aid to the contras and a constitutional amendment to ban abortions. Admitted Karnes: "He's a personality in this state, someone who turns up in People magazine...
...risks and rewards as proved over time, and comparing the various state and federal programs with the Massachusetts one. On the A.C.L.U., Dukakis should have appeared with officers of that organization and joked about all the times they had disagreed in the past, while asserting that what makes America great is the preservation of free discussion and advocacy. This is what columnist Christopher Matthews, Tip O'Neill's onetime aide, calls seeking to "hang a lantern on your problems." But Dukakis' problem was that he did not know he had problems...