Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOST OF THE people in line at the Sack Beacon Hill asked for tickets to Das Boot Pronouncing it like what cowboys wear, probably ready to see another complex, harshly intellectual film, as they have come to expect from recent German filmmakers. Once in the dark, however, they discovered that Boot not only means "boat," but is pronounced just like the English word; and, moreover, that this is a good old-fashioned action-packed American-style war movie. Complete with a tough, taciturn captain, young bloom-of-manhood sailors just doing their duty, suspense, explosions, and the general message that...
...audience for this movie, moreover, is not entirely accustomed to watching subtitled films--this is being shown at a Sack Theater, not at the Orson Welles. Das Boot is being promoted as a movie that happens to come from Germany, not as a "foreign film," with all the connotations of all-art-and-no-plot that the term carries for American. If the same audiences who like action-packed movies are willing to read subtitles and be depressed, Das Boot will be a hit in America...
Over at Shea, Richard Todd pulled off the regular season's most exciting victory with a last-second touchdown against Miami. Freeman MacNeil added excitement to the Jets' running attack, and Gastineau and Klecko became legends as heads of the New York Sack Exchange...
...expendable Chinese rug might turn out to be another man's treasure. The result: a primitive system of barter. A cab driver with a can of oil could trade with a café manager for a pound of coffee. A pair of leather boots would get a sack of potatoes, and a bottle of vodka was pure gold. A Warsaw schoolteacher marveled when one enterprising boy in her class announced that he was willing to trade girl's boots that his family had snatched up in the frantic buying binge for a pair he could wear. He closed...
Freshman fullback Brian Cooke, who had 55 yards on the day, barreled his way through the Holy Cross line for several first downs, but the Crimson campaign stalled after a Crusader sack and holding penalty...