Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be good to report that Sayles, who likes to portray groups under pressure (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan), has solved all these issues, but he has not. Based on Eliot Asinof's definitive book of the same name, Eight Men Out lacks either the spacious simplicity of legend or the patient detailing of realism. And Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown...
...Serious golfer" is a superfluity, since there are no frivolous ones. Even the most heartbreaking hacker is expected, indeed required, to hand his soul over in significant measure to the game. In return, he is issued a sackful of allegories and a lot of little road maps pointing to the unfairness, or at least the arbitrariness, of life. Ostensibly, a number of tangibles go with it as well...
...checkered cap but otherwise has the grace not to be too picturesque, checks them off as you go. Every calamity has its accompanying parable: "This bunker you're buried in is the Bob Jones bunker. Unable to escape it, he stormed off the property and pledged never to return. Of course, he came back to win the Amateur and the Open both...
Next day Air Force One fled west to Santa Barbara. As they flew, Ronald Reagan wondered about building some new fence on the ranch, and how long after he retires it will take to break up the presidential helicopter pad and return the mountainside to its natural state...
...octane grousing in Bonn was directed at Italy, which last month imposed an experimental 110-kilometer-an-hour (68 m.p.h.) speed limit on its autostradas and an even more impudent limit of 90 kilometers (56 m.p.h.) on other roads. Yet even as Italian officials debated last week whether to return to the old 140-kilometer (87 m.p.h.) highway limit when the trial ends early next month, police records indicated that the speed reductions were saving lives. The Interior Ministry reported that 1,067 people died on Italian roads between July 1 and Aug. 15, down 4.4% from a year...