Word: sing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict, nursing a comic obsession with getting the kids to sing the school song with gusto...
Neither is the plot in which writer Wesley Strick and director Joseph Ruben (himself something of a cult figure for The Stepfather two years ago) enmesh him. Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...
...when Max Washington (Gregory Hines) finally gets out of Sing-Sing, the New York prison, he doesn't stop long on the second floor of the old dance studio. Max is Sonny's son--and he's wearing his tap shoes again...
That's the theme song for the Harvard wrestling team this weekend. After soundly beating University of Pennsylvania, Albany, and Lycoming and losing close matches to James Madison and Princeton, the wrestlers had reason to sing...
...life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from Miss Vicki, whom he wed on the Tonight Show in 1969. -- ANDREW YOUNG, formerly a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is finishing his second four-year term as mayor of Atlanta...