Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eastern California. To support his growing brood, he took a job delivering antique furniture between acting and music gigs. By the early '70s, Olmos was landing small parts on shows like Kojak and Hawaii Five-O, often as bartenders and two-bit hooligans. "I was the only person Jack Lord shot in the back, ever," he notes dryly. "That's how bad I was." Then in 1978, during an audition for a play at Los Angeles' Mark Taper theater, he was asked if he would like to try out for Zoot Suit, Luis Valdez's musical drama about the famous...
...hobbyists, danger is part of the scenario. "You step back into Jack London's time," says Hopkins, who first hopped a freight during his student acting days to attend his grandfather's 90th birthday. "Each trip has edginess, adventure and beauty." Hopkins and his companions are headed for Yuma, Ariz., a wintertime hobo haven along the Colorado River. Since the bull had promised 30 days in jail and a $2,000 fine if further annoyed, everyone hid, returning well after midnight to catch the train. They succeeded, but with difficulty. Comfortable boxcars are giving way to sealed containerized loads...
...campaign which used the sleaze factor to its fullest potential was Bush's. Instead of hurting him, the Reagan Administration's corruption may have actually carried Bush to the nomination over relatively filth-free candidates like Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. After all, if you're under a cloud of suspicion, you miss out on taking on Dan Rather. Is it surprising that the last Republican candidate besides Bush was Pat Robertson...
Aware of such stories, Jack Coleman, who played Dynasty's bisexual Steven Carrington, cannot help wondering what will happen now that he's on his own. "On network television, you're strongly identified with a role," he says. "Week in, week out, you come into people's houses. And since they don't pay, it seems less like a performance and more like a slice of life...
...reprogram the computer. The reasons: it was unlikely that both an aborted flight and valve failures would occur at the same time, and an analysis showed that the orbiter and tank would in fact miss . each other by five to eight feet. That, says Shuttle Avionics Chief Jack Boykin, is not close enough to justify complex changes in computer programs...