Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phil Esposito will apologize to all the Ranger fans in the world for shaking the team up two days before the playoffs began and then starting an untested rookie goaltender, Mike Richter, in the game in which the Rangers were eliminated from the playoffs...
...Right now when it comes to getting funding, we are like a lone ranger out there," Tsongas said. "The momentum that will be provided by local and business support will be a big help at funding time...
...Wincer -- with sweep, intelligence and sheer storytelling drive. Firmly anchoring the film is Robert Duvall's moving performance as the wry, philosophical ex-lawman Augustus McCrae. Tommy Lee Jones provides stern counterpoint as McCrae's partner, Woodrow F. Call. Dozens of finely etched characters surround them: a roguish ex-Ranger turned gambler (Robert Urich); a prostitute looking for escape (Diane Lane); a wimpy sheriff (Chris Cooper) searching for his runaway wife; and a lost love (Anjelica Huston) whom McCrae locates on the plains of Nebraska. Not to mention sadistic outlaws, vicious Indians and other disasters, natural and man-made...
...springtime one could travel for hundreds of miles on a bed of flowers. Sometimes they came up to my stirrups." Thus a Texas Ranger in 1875 described riding through West Texas. To preserve this natural bounty, in 1982 Lady Bird Johnson gave 60 Texas acres and $125,000 to found the National Wildflower Research Center. Now, with horticulturist Carlton B. Lees, the former First Lady has produced Wildflowers Across America (Abbeville; 309 ! pages; $39.95) and will donate her royalties to help support the center. The botanical handbook is illuminated with photographs of extraordinary clarity and includes instructions...
...decades ago, the author began working as a seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that wistful novel of eco-banditry The Monkey Wrench Gang...