Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) meets his new team, everyone witnessing the encounter knows intuitively that whatever obstacles lie in their path, the Hickory Huskers are going to win the high school basketball championship of Indiana this season...
...There were no firm obstacles placed in the path of dishonest, pushy, greedy people intent on personal gain from their party membership...
...usual, Princeton looks to be a major obstacle in Harvard's path toward its fifth straight Ivy and National team championships...
...Platoon says that American soldiers -- the young men we sent there to do our righteous dirty work -- turned their frustrations toward fratricide. In Viet Nam, Stone suggests, G.I.s re-created the world back home, with its antagonisms of race, region and class. Finding no clear and honorable path to victory in the booby-trapped underbrush, some grunts focused their gunsights on their comrades. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army (NVA) were shadowy figures in this family tragedy; stage center, it was sibling riflery. Stone's achievement is to pound and hack this theme into a ripping yarn about...
...music favorites like Dolly Parton and Crystal Gayle, replanting his blueberry bushes. At Kennebunkport, Me., where the Bushes own a sprawling seafront house, the Vice President spends hours at the wheel of his 28-ft. boat, Fidelity, skipping across choppy water at 50 m.p.h., dodging lobster pots in his path. He stays close to his five children and ten grandchildren and relies heavily on his wife Barbara, a vibrant, strong-minded woman who is far less forgiving of criticism than is her husband...