Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fallbrook, Calif., backyard of Tobin White, 15, and check out the ramp: 32 ft. wide and 12 1/2 ft. high, the Fallbrook ramp is a commanding curve of wood built last summer by Tobin and his father. It has turned into a challenging arena where amateurs like Tobin can mix it up with seasoned veterans, all of them working up thrombosis- teasing speed as they turn the course and leave the ground, grabbing glorious...
Skaters may not be front runners for the high school citizenship citation, but there is an easy and equitable racial mix among thrashers. Rivalry seems to occur along geographical, not blood, lines. Eastern skateboarders smart about skateboarding's being seen as another sunny fad from Southern California, while the folks on the West Coast tend to rise above the controversy -- smoothly, natch -- as if they were crackin' an Ollie (standing on the board and bouncing straight into the air) over a large fire hydrant...
...diversity and quality. "If systems operators didn't take their money and invest it in ((programming)) like Black Entertainment Television and CNN," says John Malone, president of TCI, "they wouldn't exist, because no one else wanted to put up the money." Cable operators, they add, seek the best mix of programming to attract the largest number of subscribers. "We won't carry junk just because we have an interest in it," says ATC Chairman Trygve Myhren...
...Garner is perfectly cast as a gracefully aging Wyatt Earp in Writer-Director Blake Edwards' curiously graceless evocation of a bygone Hollywood age. The frontier marshal comes to town, at the end of the silent era, to act as technical adviser on a western in which Cowboy Star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is supposed to play him in his younger days...
...Garner's craft and natural buoyancy enable him to escape the disaster, his co-star quietly goes down with the ship. Moonlighting's macho man lacks the hell-for-leather flamboyance that the historic Tom Mix gloriously possessed and that this frail fictionalization desperately needs. As a 1920s cowboy, Willis is strictly 1980s Rodeo Drive...