Word: omens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, however, again contributed the only two American women's victories. with Darlene Beckford copping the 800 in 2:11--four seconds off her Harvard record--and Mary Herlihy winning the mile in 4:58. For Herlihy, the victory represents a propitious omen since it came in her first outdoor race after a one-year layoff...
Inside, the Saxon's Gothic architecture and broken seats fit well with a string of trailers slowly parading across the screen. There's good, clean, big-budget fun with The Final Conflict--hopefully, the last of the Omen pictures. The next preview heralds the return of The Texas Chain Saw Massacres, a picture ahead of its time. This trailer's teaser scene shows a raging lunatic perfecting his gasoline talents on a man in a wheelchair--straight down the middle. But that film's creator has a new surprise for us--Funhouse. Opening this week, Funhouse features a deformed killer...
...walks the slender line between racy humor and misogyny. Ugo Tognazzi--with the wise restraint he displayed in the first film--underplays Renato, the patient husband who holds on to just a little bit of his machismo. This first scene, while breezy and amusing, lacks energy--a sad omen of feeble scenes to come...
Regardless of that ill omen, team members remain confident. "I think we're going to win: I think it's going to be close; but I just think we're going to win," said Bain. He added he thinks the team's strength lies in its members' ability to consistently raise the level of their game even when other members are having off days, something he feels even last year's team could not do as adeptly...
...lucky, he will have a loyal Ickes or two in his group. The larger question is whether he can in some fashion duplicate Roosevelt's management of strong people in difficult jobs. The most encouraging sign is that Reagan wants to try. The second good omen is that he plans to set the direction from the top and trust his people to take care of the details while achieving his goals. Whether or not he holds full Cabinet meetings, none at all, or gathers supercommittees within the Cabinet, matters little. The issue is the distribution of authority...