Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHN DELOREAN USED TO TELL people that someday Holly wood would make a movie of his life. It was to be classic American Dream tale of a poor kid who makes good. Thinking about De-Lorean's story, you had to admit that all the ingredients were there for an upbeat flick. A hardened father works on an automobile assembly line in Detroit. His son loves cars but wants more than his dad ever had, So with almost frantic determination, the kid makes his way up through the ranks of his father's company, becoming a major executive sports...
...tongue. Trouble with Mr. Vidladhar Surajprasad Naipaul, as Bud Collins would cali him, is that he is way too young as well as way too popular. The average age of the last six winners when they got the TNT laurels is over 71, and Bellow '76 was the kid on the block at 61. A fot at 50, Vidiadhar will have to wait...
...game scheduled at Fenway Park that afternoon. He went and saw Ted Williams hit a home run in his final at-bat, during what turned out to be the last game of his splendid career. Inspired, Updike wrote an instantly recognized classic of sports reporting: "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
...hero, Danny, is a typically good-looking, suburban jock. His parents drive a Volvo, his golden retriever goes to doggy school, and his kid brother watches video-cassettes all day. Yet there's a void in Danny's life. At some point in his golden youth, something snaps--he trades in his already paved road to success for possessionless servitude in a cult. Michael O'Keefe--the blue-eyed actor last seen as the disturbed son in The Great Santini--does a fine job portraying the troubled Danny. Yet his precarious insecurity, although true to life, becomes unconvincing...
...press. Reagan has been treated with kid gloves. He has been given the benefit of the doubt, not only during this first year and a half, but also during the campaign, when his detrimental policies were never analyzed by the press. Reagan's demeanor as an "aw shucks" grandfatherly type appeals to the country and the press. Some of his characteristics, such as his not being familiar with details of issues, even arouse a sense of protection in the press. There was a kind of game by the press to see if there were questions I could not answer. Part...