Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good measure, Georgia has replaced Alabama as the top-ranked team in both the Associated Press sportswriters' poll and the United Press International coaches' poll, the first time since World War II that the Bulldogs have led the national rankings. Jubilant Georgians are unfurling bumper stickers that marvel: HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS...
Sally's nephew Ken (Christopher Reeve), who now owns the Talley place, is perched on crutches, having lost both legs in Viet Nam. Through the marvel of commercial casting, cinema's Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...
...Goddess of the Green Ripples, combine singing and acrobatics and seem less successful - or at least less accessible. Chinese singing, even when done well, as it obviously is by the Peking stars, sounds curiously bland and uninviting to untutored ears. A combination of the best productions, however, is a marvel for eye, mind and ear as well...
Despite its occasional failures at inopportune moments, the back is a marvel of biological engineering. It is not only the body's principal scaffolding, on which the skull, ribs, pelvis and shoulder bones are all anchored. It also serves as the major conduit for the bundles of nerves-the spinal cord-that link the brain with other parts...
...great-grandfather goes to Hawaii at about the same time to clear the land and plant sugar cane. He resents the rule that forbids talking on the job: "How was he to marvel adequately, voiceless? He needed to cast his voice out to catch ideas." Lonely, overworked, far from their families, the China Men dig a large hole in a rich Hawaiian cane field, kneel around it and chant. " 'I want my home,' the men yelled together. 'I want home. Home. Home. Home. Home.' " Then they cover up the soil, trusting that the cane, when grown...