Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently being given, and not to allow their territories to be used for subverting other governments." American signatories of the panel's report included former Cabinet officers Robert McNamara, Elliot Richardson, Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance; such business leaders as Banker David Rockefeller and Time Inc. Chairman Ralph Davidson; and retired Air Force General David Jones, who until last June was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Atlantic Coast Conference, where a 19-ft. shot is rewarded with three points, Whittenburg's mortars were the antidote for Virginia's 7-ft. 4-in. Ralph Sampson. But then, at just two points a shot, N.C. State beat Virginia again in the regionals. A sophomore with a sense of theater, a forward named Lorenzo Charles, made two free throws at the end of that 63-62 victory, just as he had made one with three seconds left in a 71-70 triumph over Wake Forest...
Maryland Hotel Developer Ralph Deckelbaum, 53, who has been using a portable phone on a trial basis for more than a year, says he is "tickled to death with it." But life has not been the same for his secretary of 22 years, Anna Belle Alderman. "It used to be that when he left, he was gone," she sighs. "Now he never leaves; he can talk to me every five minutes if he wants to. When he goes out on a construction job, he calls me while he's standing on one of the girders...
...youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows I'm there," the line is both gut-wrenching and believable. With desolation a staple, a bit of fisticuffs and a dangerous chase add spice...
...rival groups taunt and threaten each other; once in a while they rumble; sometimes a flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that...