Word: slough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan Djordjevic (Cruise) is a college sports scholarship, and his prospects look grim: the coach (Craig T. Nelson) thinks Stef has a "bad attitude." He needs Ihe love of his good woman Lisa (Lea Thompson) lo keep him from falling into the slough of his family's steelworker tradition...
...against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from upcreek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. This time the Castigator singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge the last bitter dregs of pity and fear, gets his gentle eyes and mouth whipped to a black pulp by the K. K. K. before he is released. But the boar is the chief sacrifice...
...America's Cup wallows in a slough of bickering
...look for 17 points from me every night," the Philadelphia native said. But he's not going to disappear altogether from the box score, either "Teams tend to slough off on me too much and that hurts the other guys...
Daytime is a disaster area at the network; the Today show and NBC Nightly News continue to lose ground to the competition; and NBC's prime-time ratings are still in the slough, with only one show in the top 20 (18th-ranked Hill Street Blues, which Silverman had commissioned from Source: MTM), and twelve in the bottom 20. Still, the network is attracting more trend-setting urban viewers with shows like the dramatic musical series Fame. This "narrowcasting" approach may win NBC an unusual distinction: it could become the first boutique network...