Word: hoot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gildehaus kept up his futile manuevers, but once the clock had ticked down to three seconds, the partisan Crimson crowd began to hoot derisively as it became apparent that the midfielder would never even be able to release the ball in the face of Peyser's dogged one-on-one pressure...
Although the lost satellite cast a shadow over the mission, Challenger's commander, Vance Brand, 52, a former Marine pilot on his third spaceflight, and his four crewmen, including Copilot Robert ("Hoot") Gibson, 37, a space novice, faced other weighty matters. In many ways Flight 41-B, as the mission is called under a new numbering system fathomable only to NASA bureaucrats, is the most ambitious sortie into space to date. It features a full agenda of experiments, including one intriguing test devised by a high school student to see if zero-g can relieve the agony of arthritic...
Rumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year. On the naturalistic level, Francis Coppola's film is a botch, a hoot. The two main characters-Rusty-James (Matt Dillon), a 17-year-old punk who figures he moves with the swagger of stardom, and his older brother the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), tired of being an outlaw legend in Rusty-James' eyes-are little more than the sum of their mannerisms. Their father (Dennis Hopper) is a philosophizing sot who comes and goes with the whim. Rusty-James' girlfriend (Diane Lane) is a mere...
...elegantly portrayed by Michael York, 41, and Richard Thomas, 32, in a three-hour CBS-TV version to be aired next year, James and Henry seem to have been modeled less on the hardy Duries of 18th century Scotland than the court dandies of Louis XIV's Versailles. Hoot, laddies, can ye no swallow those simpers, at least...
...took Carter's briefing book? Who gives a hoot...