Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is one of those rare years when it all seems to be coming together," Scalise says, explaining that he's never had such a combination of talented Yardlings and upperclassmen, except perhaps for that fall...
Although commercial-airline ads make lavish promises, "frequent flyers," as harried business passengers are called, know that three things are rare in the air: an on-time takeoff, a good meal and the use of a telephone. While the airlines work on promptness, the third problem will soon be remedied. Next month several American Airlines and TWA flights will begin carrying telephones for passenger...
...rallies in preceding weeks, quickly breaking up the demonstrations with tear gas, truncheons and water cannons. The government also sought to deny a permit for the August Twenty-One Commemoration Committee demonstration, arguing that it would be used by subversive elements for an assault on the President. In a rare rebuff to Marcos, the Supreme Court ruled that the rally should be permitted...
...done little more than transfer the play cleanly to the small screen and keep our eyes riveted on the performers. In this case, that is enough. Though Tommy Lee Jones, as Brick, lacks the brooding charisma of Paul Newman in the 1958 movie version, he provides a rare sight: a Brick who actually looks and talks like the ex-football player he is supposed to be. (Jones was an all-Ivy, all-East offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production of Cat) makes Big Mama a more sympathetically human figure...
...calamity. Judith Ivey as a wife whose dimness is perfectly shaded, Gilda Radner as an angry romantic, and Charles Grodin as a secretive goof all follow their leader's spirit. The result is the summer's first comedy for adults. May they respond profitably to so rare a gift. -By Richard Schickel RED DAWN...