Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national teams. Says Jakub Zvara, 15, a member of the Prague center, presently ranked 20th in Czechoslovakia in his age group: "I am sacrificing everything, including training and education for a normal job, for tennis. If I am not a good player, then I am nothing." The payoff: a chance to travel freely in the West, rake in hard-currency winnings, and live better than Central Committee members. Any player 18 or over with 120 points on the international tennis rating scale in singles or 60 points in doubles, or who is a member of the Davis, King...
...premise of Aliens, its emotional essence, is contained in the smaller picture: a woman, her formerly unacknowledged maternal instinct raised to full inner scream by exotic and terrifying circumstances, takes a frightened child into desperately protective custody. The payoff is in the large photo: the climactic confrontation between this woman and her chief tormentor, leader of the alien monsters and -- ironically, grotesquely -- a single mom herself. Since she is a well-armored insect about 14 ft. tall, determined to propagate her kind, and since that activity requires human lives to be accomplished -- as many as she and her innumerable brood...
...shouts of Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious kids; Truman's political cronies, with ample bourbon, bellowing their fealty; Nixon's house evangelists heaving and praying in the midst of Watergate. Conniving diplomats have come there, as well as big-time pols and heavy moneymen, all summoned for the payoff of a lunch or dinner at the very headwaters of U.S. history...
...appears the tobacco industry's expensive and longterm effort to associate smoking with liberation and success among women has paid off, at least for the industry," Johnston said. "The payoff for those young women who bought the message is quite another matter...
...against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film's shortcomings while you watch it, but put this performance in the time capsule...