Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many hyphens: comedy writer-producer-singer-songwriter. Until last December, he still commuted to Vancouver to tape his highly popular Canadian daytime talk show. Thicke is a performer who can do everything, kind of. On his new show he sings and plays the guitar like a grownup Rick Springfield. As a conversationalist he can be gently witty, without Letterman's sting or Carson's quickness. "I'm cool in the McLuhan sense," he says. Describing himself as an Everyman, he is uncomfortable with the label of comic: "I'd rather be the genial host...
Smart people can make the dumbest moves. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis were the two brightest lights of SCTV, who stumbled into celebrity by impersonating a couple of Canadian oafs named Doug and Bob McKenzie. These Two Stooges of the Great White North sprawled about in parkas, plaid shirts and toques, guzzling their beloved Molson's and calling each other "hosers." Now they have been given 90 minutes of screen time and a license to steal children's lunch money. Strange Brew, which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal...
...Rick Swenson St. Paul
...Angels, mostly because the trespassing often involved in fixed-object jumping (but not the leaps themselves, Boenish quickly points out) is illegal. One of the great early jumps, from which springs the present fad of BASE (for Buildings, Antenna towers, Spans and Earth) jumping was made in 1970 by Rick Sylvester. He skied off of Yosemite's 7,569-ft. El Capitan, popped a chute and floated down to the meadow below. Some 120 bandit jumps followed, and finally, in 1980, the park grudgingly began handing out permits, a futile and short-lived exercise in imposing bureaucracy...
...bankingest town in the U.S.," declares Herb Bowden, president of Sencore Inc., a manufacturer of electronic-testing equipment. The town's mayor is more precise. "Citibank," Mayor Rick Knobe says proudly, "moved us from a known regional entity to a newcomer on the national and international scale...