Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Watson's hat-trick and senior Randy Millen's two goals spearheaded the icemen's most potent offensive showing of the year. Perhaps the most pleasant aspect of the win, though, was the rejuvenated Harvard power play, which notched four man-up tallies in six attempts against the Irish...
...Eugene O'Neill knew so well, the dark jesting soul of the Irish is stalked by the ghosts of the past. "Da," which won the New York Drama Critics' and Tony awards, is about a capricious old party, saltily portrayed by Barnard Hughes, who refuses to be buried with his effects...
Because they put such a priority on enterprise, the Irish people will enjoy some unusual gifts this Christmas. Jobs are being created so fast that the 150-year-old hemorrhage of forced emigration has been stopped; no longer can it be said that Ireland's greatest export is men. The population is rising for the first time in modern history. Irishmen are returning home from distant lands. And a most remarkable development is occurring: at current growth rates, the Irish standard of living-based on production per capita-in 1980 will surpass that of once mighty Britain...
Along with Washington, six other crews will compete this year, Parker said, including two Egyptian police crews, a Belgian crew, an Irish crew, the University of Vancouver crew, and a crew from England...
None of this helps the film much. The slow pace leaves the Brink's gang looking like the Three Stooges on quaaludes. Falk and his cohorts Paul Sorvino, Allen Goorwitz and Peter Boyle (whose intermittent Irish accent has to be heard to be believed), all ham up their little peculiarities, but things never quite start rolling. The pace starts to pick up midway through the film, when Warren Oates appears as a half-crazed demolition expert whose plans to blow up the Brink's safe with a bazooka stun the rest of the gang into disbelief...