Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PORNOGRAPHY MAY NOT be art, but sophisticated pornography can be entertaining. That's more than you can say for Sunday Lovers, a made-for-television movie now playing by mistake at the Sack Charles...
...were entitled to give any kind of bash they felt like-and could afford. Said Inaugural Co-Chairman Robert Gray: "There weren't any Government funds. These were citizens who wanted to celebrate. Just because we're conservative doesn't mean we should run around in sack cloth and ashes when we want to celebrate." Added Special Trade Representative Bill Brock: "It happens only once every four years. They deserve a good time...
...bullets and shells. "I got third-degree burns from a machine gun," she groans, "and no matter what I did, the shells kept bouncing off me. The men in those sequences had jackets, boots and dungarees, while my body was exposed in this off-the-shoulder blouse and a sack skirt." Wagner was comforted somewhat by a cuddly black panther cub, one of her costars, but mostly, she says, "I applied a lot of ice" to that not-so-bionic skin. -By Claudia Wallis
...canvas Stryker frame, Eareckson felt life was meaningless. "All those yardsticks for success that had come to mean so much to me were shattered-being pretty and popular, dating the right guys." The first time she went shopping for clothes, "they just hung on me like a sack." After waves of depression and a phase of reading existentialists and atheists, she gradually came back to a deepened version of the orthodox Christianity in which she had been raised...
More than a year ago, in the sack of mail delivered each afternoon to the Crimson, a stream of letters began to appear. Unlike most of the mail--announcements of bassoon concerts and speeches by nuclear chemists, or indignant responses to recent articles--these letters addressed only the great issues of the day, and with a style and a penmanship that made them unmistakable...