Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about time, as Cybill Shepherd sees it. The erstwhile cover girl made a dazzling film debut 14 years ago as a budding beauty in The Last Picture Show, but the early promise of that role seemed to go unfulfilled. Several movies and a television series, Yellow Rose, flopped. Then last spring she let her hair down as the frosty and funny Maddie in the ABC-TV series Moonlighting. The critics applauded, and since it returned to the air this fall, the show has made several appearances in the Top Ten. "It was real hard for me to break...
Asked by a corrupt police chief what his occupation is, he replies, "I'm a shepherd." Confronted by a huge and angry attack dog, he cries, "Look, defenseless babies," then muses as he skids away from the befuddled beast, "Fell for the oldest trick in the book." Staring down the wrong end of a revolver aimed at him by the mastermind of a drug-smuggling and -peddling scheme, the reporter eyes the plaques on the wall behind the crook and sighs, "You know, if you shoot me you'll lose a lot of those humanitarian awards...
...every shepherd these days is out tending his flocks in a field. To produce a more perfect wool, some Australian farmers are keeping their sheep indoors and pampering them like Park Avenue poodles. They provide tires, logs and rubber balls to keep the sheep amused, feed them a vitamin-enriched mix instead of letting them graze, and even wrap them in cloaks to protect their fleece from dirt...
Close your eyes and you can picture that wisecrack coming from Carole Lombard or Rosalind Russell in a '30s screwball comedy. Moonlighting re-creates the madcap mood of those films with the help of two ingratiating stars. Cybill Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an assured and ; appealing light comedian. As her partner in crime solving, Bruce Willis is more than her match. With his thick-necked macho charm, Willis brings a Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories...
...local support. After six months of struggle, company officers bought up the public stock and turned Dan River into a private firm. Icahn, who had started buying shares at $12, sold out for $22.50, for a total profit of $8.5 million. After his victory, Icahn named his new German shepherd attack dog Shiloh in honor of the Civil War battle in which the North defeated the South...