Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DETROIT--Kirk Gibson needed only one game to convince 51,437 opening-day fans in Tiger Stadium that he's worth every penny of the $4.1 million he wrested from Detroit in a bitter contract hassle over the winter...
Initially, relations were not particularly fraternal between the D.L.C. and Paul Kirk, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Kirk and other traditional Democrats viewed the D.L.C. as a kind of separatist movement of crypto-Republicans. Yet now Kirk seems almost brotherly toward the D.L.C., talking about the "positive, constructive relationship" he has with its members. Kirk has acted on the D.L.C.'s diagnosis of some of the party's problems: he has reduced the number of its special-interest caucuses and increased the proportion of elected Democrats who will be delegates at the 1988 convention. Kirk is also...
Thought I was eulogizing the Challenger? As far as I'm concerned, there is little difference between the two vessels. Let me qualify that: some might call me insensitive for comparing Star Trek and the space shuttle. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are only fictional characters, while McAuliffe and her fellow crew-mates were real people--or should I say, Real People. The Challenger crew was treated just like those wacky rustics who were paraded before the nation by Skip Stevenson on the old "Real People" television program--proof that, by God, even an ordinary mother of two can make...
...bred generation of the sixties, space travel was Star Trek. The space walks and moon landings were pretty tame stuff compared to the phaser-blasting antics of Captain Kirk and his cosmic crew. Apollo was a warm-up, a boring story for adults who couldn't handle the real drama of rampaging Romulans and galaxy-sized amoebas...
...three-hour movie) to investigating the strands of American cultural identity woven into The Right Stuff; and even then he never really put his finger on it. But it took only 60 minutes a week for Star Trek to illustrate those values: loyalty to friends (how many times had Kirk risked his ship to pull Scottie or Bones out of a jam?), an almost reckless disregard for personal safety, and commitment to self-selected duty. These are the values reflected in the equilibrium between Spock's cold-blooded logic and Dr. McCoy's mercurial emotionalism...