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Oversized racket sales -- with prices ranging from $100-300 -- grew by 60 per cent last year. The racquets have put the snowshoe on the other foot, prompting Prince users to jeer outdated traditionalist and mock the mini-racquet antiques. What's that for. . . Stir your martinis? Swat mosquitos? Nail down the lines...
...Black Lagoon, in 3-D. It has the quintessential horror plot: The good guys are in a space-ship in outer space when they discover that a monster is on board. No place to run. You can approach this film three ways. You can be a pseudo and jeer out loud at the cheap effects, you can be a silly pseudo and consider the movie to be an allegory for the human condition, or you can make believe that you are an eight-year-old and be really scared. The third alternative is the most...
...Questions", a ten-ton modern sculpture made of rusted steel was recently installed in front of the student union amid a crowd of 100 students who opposed its purchase and gathered to jeer as a crane lowered the sculpture into place. One student, trying to deface the work, broke off a piece of metal which later was welded back into place...
Even by the rowdy standards of the House of Commons' "cheer and jeer" debate, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in for a bruising confrontation as she rose from the government front bench last week to answer hostile opposition challenges about the country's unemployment, the worst since the 1930s. Days earlier, when she wore a black dress, Labor M.P. William Hamilton had pointed a taunting finger at her and inquired derisively, "Is she dressed in black because of the unemployment figures?" Now she was meticulously turned out in a tailored gray suit, a soft white bow at her neck...
...fervor of Kennedy's supporters demonstrated a severe problem, not only for Carter but for all Democrats. The party is searching for, and has not found a new role and a new voice. While its primary votes went to Carter, whose conservative economic policies caused Kennedy to jeer at him as "a clone of Ronald Reagan," the hearts of many of its activists still belong to the old-fashioned liberalism. After the Kennedy demonstration, delegates whooped through by voice vote several of the Senator's economic planks that seem out of touch with the realities of inflation and the mood...