Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sack Cheri lobby. Posters of the movies alone presage man burning in eternal hell. Caveman, with a cartoon Barbara Bach performing oral sex on a dinosaur's tail; Superman II (just when you thought it was safe to go back in the air...?); Heaven's Gate (now weakly billed as "the most controversial film of the year!"--if I threw up and then demanded a paying audience that would be controversial...
...back of the van, Biggs was drugged, thrown into a canvas sack and driven to Rio's Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...
...Lippert was different very different. He was you see an animal. He hibernated for more than 12 hours each day emerging between 1 and 2 p.m. After lunch and a quick nap he would arise again to rough-house until 2 a.m., when he would again hit the sack. On weekends he caught up on his sleep...
GOING TO the movies today gives one the feeling of being an unwitting contributor to a Hollywood Slice-N-Dice-a-Thon. The Saxon theater, the cheesy upstart of the Sack line, fills its lobby with horror film posters. To the left, a nubile woman is undergoing a tracheotomy by cleaver, and to the right, half-naked women cringe in terror as an ax-murderer emerges from the shadows...
...Rookie of the Year award (which went to Cleveland's Super Joe Charboneau and his media machine) in the process, and a spot will have to made for him somewhere in the lineup. With the traffic jam of erstwhile designated hitters and ex-Angels at first base, the keystone sack is the obvious choice...