Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp it up this time, with Ringo Starr as a misfit caveman and sultry Barbara Bach as his Stone Age Circe? Why not, indeed? Writers Gottlieb and DeLuca have risen-no, lowered themselves-to the challenge. Instead of screaming at prehistoric monsters, the audience squeams at a ragtag parade of sight gags and slapstick. And has a wonderful time...
...bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote's regime. In retaliation, scores of people have been murdered by both Obote's ragtag army and a sinister array of secret police organizations whose homicidal excesses begin to rival those of Amin's dreaded State Research Bureau. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White went to Kampala last week to assess the country's continuing travail. His report...
...also buried a potent but ragtag Eli squad along about the middle of the first half, when sharpshooter Tom Mannix scored eight of his 16 points inside three minutes, helping Harvard spurt from a one-point lead to a 38-24 advantage...
Workaholic Eagles vs. ragtag Raiders in the Super Bowl...
...purge of both Politburo and lower-level cadres testifies to the clout of Solidarity. From a ragtag bunch of shipyard workers and dissidents, it has grown into a labor leviathan, with an estimated 10 million members (out of 17.3 million employed) in 54 chapters around the country. When a strike loomed in Warsaw, no less than Deputy Prime Minister Jagielski offered to dispatch a government helicopter to Gdansk to pick up Lech Walesa. Solidarity has even acquired a modicum of official respectability. To raise funds, it has sponsored a benefit performance at the National Opera House and auctions...