Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality. Suzuki, a compromise candidate chosen after the sudden death of Masayoshi Ohira in 1980, had developed an embarrassing reputation for indecision and incompetence. Although Nakasone (pronounced nock-ah-so-nay) will not deviate from the free-enterprise, pro-Western policies of his predecessors, he comes equipped with a solid understanding of defense and economics, two of the most pressing issues on his agenda. A seasoned administrator who has held five Cabinet posts over the past 23 years, Nakasone is, perhaps most important, a decisive and agile politician who knows what he wants...
Volvo has thrived by developing a reputation for being a rock-solid, long-lasting car that can be counted on to hold its value. It often claims that the life expectancy of its models on Swedish roads is 19.6 years. During the mid-1970s, however, the company was often slow shipping parts to U.S. dealers, causing repair delays. And some Detroit-built cars, notably Chevrolet's Camaro and Corvette, have kept their resale value better than Volvos...
...What we have here is not only dripping but gripping stuff, whose essence might be summarized as: Can a 57-year-old Westport, Conn., salad-dressing manufacturer find satisfaction as a hotshot race-car driver, successful political activist, prizewinning movie director, solid-state sex symbol, show-biz iconoclast and possibly the most commanding male presence in films during the past three decades? If that sounds just a touch overheated, never fear. We have Paul Newman to play the lead...
...takes Newman longer-seven years, he figures-to know whether his movies are winners or not. His acting in The Verdict is brilliant and solid and, what is more, brilliant in the right direction. He plays a boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of the film's 125 min., accurately enough to be utterly convincing, with enough restraint so that the audience does not get a hangover, and sympathetically enough so that he reaches out, shakily, and touches heroism. Frank Galvin is a formerly bright and formerly young Boston attorney who was railroaded...
...hoopsters played their usual solid defense, but could not hit a number of close-in shots that might have swung the game in the Crimson direction. "We should have won that game," Coach Kathy Delaney Smith remarked after the game. "I'm very disappointed that we didn't. We took a number of good shots that just didn't fall. If they had, the game would have been totally different...