Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appreciate Shirley MacLaine's quest to know herself and the meaning of life. There are few people who are willing to pursue the answer to the question of what happens when the curtain falls for the final tune. If Shirley has lived before, we can probably expect her back again. Her next incarnation: the encore...
This simple plot is enhanced by the colorful and symbolic figures that influence Hobbs' quest. There is his grumpy yet loveable coach, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), whom the audience first encounters in the Knights' dugout patiently watching his clumsy ball players and screaming about the rusty water from the water fountain. Pop Fisher needs a break, and when Robert Redford saunters into the pit, reminiscent of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the audience feels a thrill of excitement at the predictable future of the Knights...
...Ender, resembled a man, though she did not look like a man to men, certainly not to Roland Mathes, who married her. He was the G.D.R.'s top male swimmer, and a friendship between Mathes and John Naber, the best American, was evident. "We were on a similar quest," Naber said. "The thing that makes friends is a shared experience. The best of that is a mutual respect...
...quest is for coolness. After a year of cultural and emotional R. and R. in Montana, former Magazine Writer Kelly Martin returns to the heat of a New York City summer resolved to find happiness by achieving a perfect balance between being "loving and acid-smart." Instead, she meets the laconic Jennings, whose last name is never mentioned, and returns to her favorite indoor sport: power tripping...
That relentless quest for self-knowledge has led her to the Masai tribe of Africa, the mountaintop villagers of Bhutan, the Indians of Peru, often on the spur of the moment. She explains, "I would make a beeline out of the country in an effort to find myself I would clarify my value system by plunging into a different one." She regarded her career at times as a nuisance. "I was most interested in working out my own identity, and the characters I played took away from that," she says. "Now that I am happier, my desire for travel...