Word: socks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beethoven and Chuck Berry. Problem is, this Starman (Jeff Bridges) didn't R.S.V.P. Without so much as a by-your-leave, he has crash-landed in Wisconsin and now has three days to get to Arizona, where the mother ship will pick him up, like Junior after the sock hop, and take him home. His cross-country guide and reluctant guardian angel is Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), a young widow, who at first registers no small surprise on discovering that Starman has assumed human form by cloning the body of her late and much loved husband...
...Black Rock Brass. Think of the forest, and not of the cash. And in U-Hall 4 if you find Michael Spence. Say, "Relax a little, don't be so tense." For if all goes well and you coddle Prez. Bok. A University Chair you will find in your sock. Just think of ole' Roso, your precursor as dean. He gave us the Core, now he's not to be seen...
Lumet directs Gilly's already enervated movements with a wet sock. Not only is Gilly unable to capture much interest, as he races around searching for Garbo, but Lumet provides a leaden pace, that never seems to pick up, even as Gilly comes close to meeting the great film star. In fact, it is only the movie's title that assures us that Gilly will indeed find Garbo...
Mondale struck back quickly. "I'm convinced they are going to sock it to the average American; they've got in mind a national sales tax or value-added tax." Reagan, he charged, "seems to be afraid to be straight with the American people." Mondale, for his part, has not yet specified how he would make good on his promise to reduce the deficit by two-thirds during his first term. Rather than seeking any sort of sales tax, which hits poorer people relatively harder than the well-to-do, he would probably rely partly on higher income...
...husband, the football watcher, who sits in front of the tube "like a dead sponge surrounded by bottle caps" until "the sound of his deep, labored breathing puts the cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids ask where the lost ones go, and she tells them that they go to live with Jesus. About how, when one kid ate an unknown quantity of fruit on a supermarket expedition, she offered to weigh him and pay for everything over 53 Ibs. About...