Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's not to say there isn't plenty of good old fashioned rough stuff in this movie. For a warm-up, you travel to Paris, where Lois has somehow gotten herself trapped in an elevator that not only has a nuclear bomb in it, but is also plummeting to earth from the top of the Eiffel tower. No job for a mere mortal. In the process of disposing of the explosive, Superman unwittingly allows the three chief villains of this saga to escape...
...Terpil, 41, who had worked overseas for the agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known as "the ice-man" at the agency, was a cold yet charming operative who kept in gregarious touch with his CIA buddies. He often took Mulcahy along to suburban Washington bars, like the Rough Rider Lounge at the Ramada Inn in Tyson Corners, Va., where agents gathered. Mulcahy was convinced that his partner was still working "under deep cover...
...students have been chosen by local school principals. As preparation, they have had to read Adler's latest book, Six Great Ideas. Most found it rough going. "I had a dictionary in one hand," giggles Gunston School Junior Sandy Luna. "I learned a lot of new words like proclivity." The six ideas, handled in six two-hour sessions: Truth. Goodness. Beauty. Liberty. Equality. Justice. What they are engaged in is nothing less than a moral philosophy marathon, and at first the students seem cowed. Less than 15 minutes into the opening session, when Adler asks for questions about truth...
...father was a mulatto, his mother Puerto Rican, and she remarried into a family in which the color line got crossed so many times that it turned into a sort of soft, beige blur. That condition may be fine for discussion in a sociology seminar, but it is rough in a classroom and punishing on the playground. Jeffreys was Roman Catholic, but the other Catholic kids would not hang out with him because he was black. The neighborhood blacks kept away from him because his skin was too light. He found a couple of Jewish friends but was forbidden...
That was Campo's big break. He started as a groom, and after four years Neloy promoted him to assistant trainer -and full-time protégé. In hopes of smoothing some of Campo's rough edges, Neloy went so far as to enroll him in a Dale Carnegie course. That effort failed. Though Campo could never acquire the social skills of the racing swells, he learned well the lessons of the barn and backstretch. Says Trainer Woody Stephens: "Johnny was a very hardworking guy. Eddie gave him his first push when he sent...