Word: rucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While his stereo snores, his mannequin tosses and turns under his covers, and his intercom tells visitors he is too weak to answer the door, Ferris is busy living it up in Chicago with his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), the latter of whom he has deviously rescued from school...
...does end up covered with dirt, bitten by Ferris's dog, and beaten up by his younger sister. Jones, who spends much of his time leering with pathological hatred of Ferris, gives a fine performance as the hapless dean. Of the other members of the cast, Alan Ruck is superlative in his supporting role, and Jennifer Grey is also good as Ferris's bratty and jealous younger sister...
...game of name recognition is becoming a major industry in every field. First establish your base, as Congressman, actor, scientist, running back, swimsuit model, writer; then separate yourself from the ruck in a way that commands notice. Lee lacocca did it as a businessman selling Chryslers, so now we have what's-his-name who liked that razor so much he bought the company. Journalism loves expert opinions; an economist or an environmentalist no wiser than his colleagues can make it big if he has vast self-confidence and the gift of articulation. Politicians who become national figures must...
Naturally if I didn't think my melodic line was stronger, "better," had more guts than the general ruck of music I wd. have burnt the mss. instead of instigating its performance...
...after President Reagan tapped him to succeed ousted EPA Administrator Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus was already hard at work trying to raise the agency's reputation, and employee morale, from the ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan...