Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wanna: Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet. It's a strange world, isn't it? Hopper gives the performance of a lifetime and then gets nominated for Hoosiers, which is Rocky in hightops. Life can be pretty cruel. But Hopper could walk off with the award just out of Academy spite. And let's hope he spews Pabst Blue Ribbon over the whole worthless bunch of them...
...special summer course to improve her chances. But the counseling office at her high school in Fayetteville, Ark., bungled the course application by reporting the wrong SAT scores. Fortunately she caught the mistake in time. Looking back on her experience from the safety of Rice University, the freshman-in-spite- of- it-all sighs, "Counselors are overwhelmed with duties. They don't know how to help...
...that he may have been set up by one of his brethren who found the arrogant Lehder too power hungry. "We cannot say we have enacted a crippling blow by this arrest," conceded DEA Administrator Jack Lawn. "Its impact lies in the fact that the government of Colombia, in spite of all its losses, has declared its intent...
What is it like to live in these times? Take a tour with me. The country feels enormous still, and various, in spite of airport roads that look identical everywhere and stores that unite the country in a fast-food mythology. The electric glass of Dallas could not be mistaken for Boston's pedagogical tweed or San Diego's white sail. In New York City this season, the sky dims by 4 in the afternoon, and the shop lights pop on like gold-and-white lanterns...
Like a runner trained for long distances, America's economic expansion is showing remarkable staying power, if not robust speed. The U.S. recovery, which passed the four-year marker in November, just keeps chugging ahead in spite of ever present doubts and dangers along the road. Since its start in 1982, the expansion has been refreshed at crucial intervals, first by the plunge of interest rates and later by the fall of oil prices. Now, at 49 months and counting, the durable recovery is already the second longest peacetime boom in U.S. history, after the 58-month expansion...