Word: greying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't even hit Ivy play and this team has already given me my yearly dosage of grey hairs."--Yale women's basketball coach Diann Nestel joked after a nerve-racking 62-55 victory over Navy...
...Manhattan careerist come home to Minnesota. Kate is a little addled, but less so than most of her relatives, and she possesses a loyalty to the whims of her dotty dad that is fierce enough to pass for independence. In Everybody's All-American she is Babs Rogers Grey, Louisiana U.'s Magnolia Queen of 1956, who blossoms into a principled businesswoman even as her marriage to a college football star withers like a corsage she forgot to press into her yearbook. Within the hash marks of familiar sports drama, the picture aims to be a Southern-fried epic...
...Rickman from Frank Deford's novel. At least you will discover that Louisianans have more fun being miserable, and accomplish it in suaver style, than Minnesotans do. This is the movie that asks, Is there life after the Sugar Bowl? Jan. 1, 1957: that's when Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid) soldered his legend to his destiny by scoring his team's winning touchdown...
...character who grows and doesn't just calcify, Lange brings wily zest to each step in Babs' coming-out party. She can toss dewy-eyed soul into a line like "I just want to be Mrs. Gavin Grey" -- all ardor, no condescension. She can bear, with a smoldering fuse, the later ordeal of player's wife and baby factory. She can tease Donnie while ironizing her flirtation: "It's every Southern mama's legacy to her daughter." She can seize control of her own life and still stand by her man. Gavin may have embodied, as the film suggests, "everything...
...have to reach out to the people based on ideas, based on the direction that you want to move towards. If people saw an alternative to Bush, they'd vote for it. The Dukakis-Bentsen campaign stayed in a grey area far too long. It didn't energize its natural constituency--Blacks, labor, the disadvantaged," Bolling said...