Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mel Gibson...
...told his new teammates that he isn't here for the yardage, but to win," said Swann. "If they believe him, he'll help them grow." Franco's class has graduated: Swann, Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Mel Blount. "Nobody was bigger than the team," Harris said. "Right now, I'm not even thinking of the record, because I've got to get myself squared away in the system." But he wants to break it, and he would like to be first...
...than they have felt in two decades. A rebirth of the American spirit, as Carter dearly hoped five summers ago? It sure feels like it. Even the walkouts called against General Motors last weekend were reluctant and selective (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). "People seem to be enjoying themselves more," says Mel Hagen, 35, an auto worker from Keego Harbor, Mich., a working-class town outside Detroit. "Things aren't as tight as they once were." Homosexual Activist Harry Britt, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, also senses a change. Says he: "I haven't found anybody...
...times as well. The spirit of Woody Allen is sometimes summoned forth: "That which is crooked cannot be made straight, although with that one I believe there are psychotherapists who might disagree." When all else fails, a common enough occurrence in this narrative, Heller turns to the slapstick of Mel Brooks circa the comedy routine "The 2,000-Year-Old Man" and the film The History of the World-Part I: pointless anachronisms (" 'Send a wire!' I shouted. 'We have no wires,' Jehoshaphat recalled for me") and noises in descending orders of rudeness...
...marching band, "and everybody else." Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show the 200 white homing pigeons that circled around toward the end, got into the act on a mission of peace. Carpenter thinks the doves mentioned in the Bible may have been pigeons instead. "I feel pigeons symbolize peace," he said...