Word: hail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Someone touched my arm and said that the fire hail turned. I looked...
...homecoming queen and Beaver Cleaver the hall monitor. It serves, however, as the unlikely temple of learning for Matthew Star, who is, literally, a space case. Matt (Peter Barton) is, as the opening narration informs, "a typical American teen-ager." It's just that he also happens to hail from Quadris, a distant planet racked by civil war. He has come to earth to hone his telepathic powers in preparation for the day that he and his guardian (the splendid Louis Gossett Jr.) will return home, unseat the usurpers and restore rightful rule to Quadris...
Reagan's life has rushed by at a frantic pace, which seems not to perturb him at all. Of course he tries to slow it down with a laugh whenever he can. Now and then, when the band strikes up Hail to the Chief, the President leans over to Nancy and says, "They are playing our song." He chuckled to himself, an old sportscaster, that the baseball All-Star game was played without his even knowing. Even that garish glen-plaid suit that rattled European style arbiters brought a guffaw. "Did you see that suit on NBC? I like...
...months the White House has been mired in a civil rights mess of its own making. Shortly after New Year's, the Reagan Administration decided to reverse a twelve-year-old policy and begin granting racially discriminatory schools the same tax breaks enjoyed by other private schools. A hail of protest thundered down, and ever since, the White House has been desperately seeking ways to escape the consequences of its ill-considered volte-face. Last week, to the relief of almost everyone, the Supreme Court agreed to settle the controversy. Since the Administration was no longer willing to argue...
...company has been trying for several hours to shoot a scene featuring the song Hail, Poetry ("For what, we ask, is life/ Without a touch of poetry in it?"). Director Leach sees the scene as a tableau, a Victorian postcard. He has shot it before, but the results seemed to him "like a bunch of people standing in a field." Shooting it again is costing money, and Universal Pictures has begun prodding Papp about costs; the production, which is scheduled for release later this year, was budgeted at $9 million and now seems likely to come in at about...