Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes from concert flick to romantic comedy to a certain affected serious drama. Springfield's salivating pre-pubescent fans are left disappointed and the rest of us confused or bored. Not content to become just another extended music video, Hard To Hold has to tell us something. "It's rough being a star," Springfield says. "Everybody thinks it's just tits and champagne...
...swear I'll take ya outta the game"), the relationship between the leads is canny and convincing. The pair do a balancing act: Cagney is hard bitten on the outside, a soft touch underneath; Lacey, played with subtlety and warmth by Tyne Daly, is motherly in manner but rough with the "poipatraters." The original show was canceled last spring, but CBS decided to bring it back to life in part because of a deluge of protest mail from viewers who responded to strong, intelligent female characters...
Indeed, thanks partly to his triumph in Michigan and partly to the fact that delegate strength is only loosely tied to the popular vote in most primary states,* Mondale appears to have won some 300 delegates last week to Hart's 245. Overall, the rough unofficial count as of Saturday night was Mondale, 458 of the 1,967 delegates needed to nominate; Hart, 289; uncommitted or pledged to other candidates, 314. But delegates this year are free to switch their votes up to or even at the convention...
...they're already in Hawaii, looking at a rough three-games-in-nine-days schedule that features two colleges and a club team...
Well Converse does, but in a singularly unconvincing, uninspired and unexciting way. Oh yeah, he has a rough time doing it--captured by an insane bunch of women who survived the Nazi reign of terror who think he's a traitor to them or running into a whole bunch of killers from Aquitaine on trains. But the rough times are just there to add space, not inventive or surprising plot twists, to the very long (647 pages) book. The problem is that we already know what the conspiracy is, and somehow, the rough times seem like parodies of better Ludlum...