Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep waiting for culture shock to hit, for me to become totally frustrated with my Chinese or get completely sick of everything--something. But it hasn't happened...
...schools hit by bloodshed, the effects linger long after the police have done their job. In Stockton, Calif. a playground shooting last January left five pupils dead. Fred Busher, the head of the school district's psychology staff, says students "realize now that school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
...earn $60 million in your first four weeks, and everybody has an explanation for your success. As the surprise movie hit of the fall season, Tri-Star's baby-love comedy Look Who's Talking has inspired plenty of retrospective wisdom. It came out at the right time of year, when its only competition was heavy dramas. It hits yuppie moviegoers where they live: in the narrow margin between careers and parenthood. It carries echoes of When Harry Met Sally in the loving friendship of a thirtysomething mom (Kirstie Alley) and the cabdriver (John Travolta) who moonlights as baby-sitter...
...movie's star, Kirstie Alley of TV's Cheers, was an unproven marquee draw. Its male leads, Travolta and George Segal, were long past their luster. Critics mostly dumped on the picture or ignored it. Savants figured, in fact, that it had about as much chance of being a hit as, say, a single sperm has of fertilizing...
...best part of this volume can be found in the 16 stories following the unfinished novel. Five have never been published, and the rest were never collected in hard covers. It is difficult to imagine why not. Malamud hit his stride early, writing stories of old men trying to preserve their dignity amid the shambles of harsh circumstances. In The Literary Life of Laban Goldman, an elderly Jew attends night school to improve his English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging...