Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its shifting mix of Hispanics, oil entrepreneurs and Yankee yuppie transplants, Texas has as many constituencies as it has recipes for five-alarm chili. Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett have been trying to cope with this volatile hodgepodge as they crisscross the state in their quest to win the Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Tower. The Lone Star candidates are as sharply dissimilar as the voters they are courting. Comments San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Doggett supporter: "No one can say it's hard to tell the candidates apart...
...YORK -- Unbeaten Larry Holmes, casting aside Gerrie Coetzee, will fight James "Bonecrusher" Smith for the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title Nov. 9 when he continues his quest to catch the ghost of Rocky Marciano...
...stage version of Amadeus is the vindication of Salieri's frustrated quest for immortality. If audiences did not gain any greater impression of his gain any greater impression of his musical talents, Salieri at least became unforgettable in the depth of his jealous passion. But translated to the screen, Amadeus becomes Mozart's own. Shaffer and Forman preserve the intensity of the Salieri-Mozart rivalry, but the film is permeated with the pulse and rhythm of the headstrong child who could compose "as if taking dictation...
...came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with the body of one woman and the brain of another, an '80s allegory of man's quest for Ms. Right...
Working with a committee of professors and administrators, the Law School's director of admissions leads a far-ranging quest for talent and diversity. The search couldn't be more straightforward, confined to four basic criteria, yet the qualities in demand are somehow indefinable. Geraghty's looking for the right stuff; she'll know it when she sees...