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Although different on paper, the film's story line too closely resembles that of the previous Rockys. Rocky III employs the all-too familiar techniques calculated to move the audience: Balboa suffers a setback, receives a pep-talk from coach or wife, recommits himself to his goal, pushes himself almost beyond endurance, and then triumphs. Instead of working out in a decrepit Philadelphia gym, Rocky now travels with Creed to work out in a decrepit L.A. gym. Instead of falling to the mat with his dazed opponent (as in Rockey II.) Balboa now assumes a Bjorn Borg-like thanking...
...Gide enjoyed Emerson; discovering that is like learning (in the other direction) that the theologian Paul Tillich had a taste for pornography. Ex-Coach Woody Hayes of Ohio State University is a passionate Emersonian. That makes more sense. Part of Emerson-only a part-is a bright theology of pep, a half-time transcendentalism. "Emerson," says Hayes, "he's on my starting eleven"-meaning the authors Hayes most regularly rereads. "In fact...
Oslin of B.C. remembers one pre-game pep-rally that inspired more than just the Eagle icemen. During the warm-up, a puck hit a female spectator on the side of her head, B.C. officials took the wounded fan into the training room to prepare for stitches and a trip to the hospital. From there, the victim could hear everything Kelley said to his boys in the adjoining locker room...
Ronald Reagan's first-anniversary pep talk to 2,000 federal employees gathered in a Commerce Department auditorium was one of the rare glimmers of optimism emerging from the gloom of Washington last week. Indeed, the very victories that Reagan was exalting-his stunning political success in enacting deep cuts in spending and taxes-made the stagnation of the economy all the more worrisome to those in his Administration. For intruding into the President's vision of success is a devastating 8.9% unemployment rate and a deep recession reflected by a 5.2% annual drop in the gross national...
...NOTEBOOK: While giving Cliff Sheehan a pep talk, Adam Dixon was approached by an official and ordered off the track. "It shows how quickly you are forgotten," Dixon said. "It's like being chairman of the Communist party in Russia and suddenly finding yourself in a six-foot cell in Siberia...