Word: socked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crime victims, and the idea had been bandied about in Missouri for four years. But it did not get anywhere until supporters heard that Pennsylvania, like a dozen other states, was raising the money for the victims by fining the victimizers. In these tax-tightening times, that sort of "sock-it-to-the-criminal" idea is likely to spread beyond the Show Me state...
...year is 1979. Skylab is falling, gas prices are rising, and Rabbit, 46, sells Toyotas for Springer Motors, the firm founded by his late father-in-law. His on-and-off marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days as a high school basketball star and the B-league scoring record he set in 1951. Even his formidable libido has begun to show signs of acting its age: "Somewhere early in the Carter Administration his interest, that had been pretty...
COLGATE 30, CORNELL 20: I like a girl at Colgate. I hate a guy at Cornell (no, it's not Dick Bertrand). Throw in the fact that these upstate-New York rivals always have rock-'em sock-'em scuffles, and such intangibles become important, because otherwise it's too close to call. I really like this girl at Colgate, so make it Colgate...
...film far superior to its predecessor and fairly successful in its own right. There's no way you can take Superman seriously for more than two hours, and in Part I, director Richard Donner couldn't quite figure out how to make the transition from rock 'em-sock 'em plot to a little self-deprecating dialogue or visual humor. Richard Lester masters this problem early on, and with good performances from his stars, gets you to root for the good guys at the same time that you laugh at them...
...become increasingly difficult to sock away any money after federal, state and local taxes have gobbled up the paychecks. But to be further taxed on the interest received from money that is put away for the future is certainly unjust...