Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clasp hands for a moment, tell him good luck. Then you're off into the crowd, throwing a clenched fist of solidarity...
...only natural that sociobiologists cannot discuss the very crucial issues of the debate on the worth of such a field. Sociobiologists are not philosophers, or--contrary to their beleif-- sociologists or social theorists. They can search futily for human evidence of their theories, and I wish them luck, but they will never have the final word on the more philosophical questions that are inherent in the debate...
...Commission Chairman William T. Bagley, Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton summed up Washington opinion this way: "The agency is one of the most screwed up in the whole Federal Government. You're working your way up the hit parade for ineptitude and inefficiency." The CFTC had the bad luck to be the first group subjected to a "sunset" law that requires new federal agencies to justify periodically their continued existence. There is some talk in Congress of letting the commission die when its charter expires Sept. 30 and giving some of its policing functions to the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...blame for the failure must be equally divided between a feebly developed script and stupefying direction. The basic story is a Bad News Bears knockoff. A down-on-his-luck Hollywood talent agent (Allen Garfield) becomes fascinated by skateboarding kids as he commutes to and from the unemployment office. He decides to organize a team to put on exhibitions and enter the competitions that are a growing part of this phenomenon. Pressed by a gambler to pay off a debt, he unpleasantly pushes the kids, loses his star on the eve of the big down hill race but sees...
...next inning I initiate a triple play, then I go ahead at bat and hit a homer. All these fantasies, based on the true glory of base ball! And why? Because a major league player has to be special; he must have a certain lyrical quickness and luck that belong more to the poetic than to the athletic part of life. Baseball is nearer to art because of the expert solitude of the player...