Word: hoedown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 4,470 delegates and alternates, 12,000 journalists and a projected 10,000 guests, the Republican hoedown will be both smaller than the Democrats' and smaller than expected (the party canceled about 12,000 unneeded hotel reservations last month). To ferry conventioneers between the 47 delegation hotels and the convention, G.O.P. organizers will be running a fleet of 120 shuttle buses (price of a four-day pass: $30). Only minor skirmishes over platform positions are expected inside the hall. Conservatives, led by Kemp and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, are pushing for three major planks: a return...
...Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss
Travolta moved with strobe-lit energy in Saturday Night Fever, woofing his dialogue in a clipped, arrogant, street dialect that matched the simplicity and pant-leg vision of his character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...
...what many accredited members of baseball's cognoscenti call the best World Series ever, the Red Sox are edged in seven games by the Red Stockings of Cincinnati in a hosiery hoedown. Tony Perez (now with the Red Sox) wrecks Boston with a towering blast of southpaw and genius Bill Lee (now with the Expos), undoing the sixth-game heroics of Cartlon Fisk and the grace of centerfielder Fred Lynn...