Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Popes watched sitcoms instead of CNN, they'd see themselves there too: warm and puddly on The Wonder Years, starched and smarmy on Family Ties. Like The Wonder Years, Running on Empty is haunted by wraiths of the '60s. Like Family Ties' Alex Keaton, Danny is a decent kid with dreams that trouble his ex-rad mom and dad: Alex plans to be a yuppie Ivan Boesky; Danny wants to study piano at Juilliard. And like both these shows, the movie tiptoes away from political specifics to nestle in the capacious bosom of no-issue humanism...
Sasso engineered Dukakis' comeback crusade as Governor in 1982, and the emotional bond between the totally dissimilar men remains strong. Though far from an articulate intellectual, Sasso has a gift for analytic thinking. A street kid from New Jersey, he is canny about people and comfortable with concepts and broad strategies. Through his two national campaigns, with Ted Kennedy and Geraldine Ferraro, he developed an army of political contacts, and he deals easily with politicians...
...himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney), who is suspicious of his charges yet sympathetic to them. The rest of the club, including Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch, is reduced to bit-player status in its own drama...
...gilded walls. Her husband Frank "the Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin) boards the morning Long Island commuter train, but he does his work in transit, putting a bullet in the brain of a rival Mafia goon in the seat ahead of him. Angela has a cute son, but the kid runs a three-card monte game in the backyard. Her home must have been decorated by Wheel of Fortune: all the furniture and appliances are studiously ugly, and half of them are still in crates. As she tells Frank, "Everything we wear, everything we eat, everything we own -- fell...
...White House office. Halfway through the discussion last Friday, the Vice President excused himself to take a call from his campaign chairman, James A. Baker. On his return, a deadpan look on his face, Bush declared he had called on his executive skills to "straighten the new kid out." Excerpts from the interview...