Word: ron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What makes somebody throw hard? I don't know," Score says. "How many big guys who look like they should be able to throw a baseball through a wall actually can't break an egg? How many little guys like the Yankees' Ron Guidry can really fire it?" Most baseball people are of the opinion that if you cannot throw or hit a fastball on the day you are born, there is nobody who can teach you. "But just like with Koufax and all the great fastball pitchers, it's Gooden's curve ball that really leaves the hitters standing...
...like King Juan Carlos, Alexander Solzhynitsin, Olaf Palme, Giscard d'Estaing, and even Burt Ward visit recently. But it took four years for Reagan to find the time to meet with any Soviet leader, and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachov still gets put on hold when he calls to wish Ron a happy birthday. So who are we to complain...
...planning to be a scientist and chances are I'm going into the defense industry," said Ron Lovejoy, vice president of Students for a National Defense, who stood beside the missile mock-up. He said his group consists of about 15 students...
...used to write and direct this stuff pretty well, with gusts of anarchic energy and a gaggle of pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall...
...together long enough recently, however, to make their first album in two years. Called Dirty Work, it features eight new Stones songs, but the album's sole video, which premiered on MTV last week, is a golden oldie, Harlem Shuffle. "We have a lot of influence," explains Ron Wood, "and we'd like to turn the kids of today on to what we consider our roots." As for working as a group again, Mick Jagger says, "It was like going back to an old shoe." Stones in an old shoe are not entirely comfortable, though. The five -- Jagger, 42, Wood...