Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last April, Borg returned to tournaments from a five-month rest, grudgingly giving in to the game's stiff rulemakers, who require even a five-time Wimbledon champion to play his way back into grace through qualifying matches. But at Las Vegas, Borg's second stop, he abruptly lost to Dick Stockton. "Half the time, he's serving with two balls in his hand," Stockton puzzled. "How can a guy with a two-handed backhand play with a ball in his hand...
...most historical dramas, the depictions of real events often seem staged, while the author's inventions seem real. In The Winds of War, the reverse is true. The historical scenes, some of them scrupulously copied from old newsreels, are vivid and acute, while the fictional scenes sometimes look stiff and awkward. But those moments pass and the story takes over, building up momentum as it approaches its tragic conclusion, hour after hour after hour. Meanwhile, ABC hopes for a happier ending of its own. Having taken its gamble, the network must wait for the results, day after day after...
...revealed by the conclusion of the two-hour movie. Sandy Dennis' Mona stuns us with the insipidness of her character. Virtually insane, she consistently insists that she had an affair with James Dean some 20 years before while he was filming the movie Giant. Her every movement, including her stiff posture and constantly flickering tongue, make Mona a treacherously attractive woman. Her self-conscious motions and carefully modulated voice reveal a delicately constructed character who could never face the brutality of the external world and is forced to wither away in the vapid small town. Dennis brings this crazed woman...
...market account. Moreover, bankers fear that the Super NOW will draw in little new money. Instead, it could attract much of the $340 billion in existing checking accounts that pay interest of 5¼% or less. To discourage customers from switching to the Super NOW, many banks are slapping stiff fees on the new account. The Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. in Winston-Salem, N.C., offers 7¼% interest on the Super NOW, but also levies a $2-per-month service charge and a 200-per-check fee. Admits John Ramsey, the bank's retail marketing manager: "Customers will probably...
...major U.S. successes, Butley and Otherwise Engaged, this semicomic, semipoignant drama, set in a bleary backwater of academe, does not focus on a caustic wit who tosses poisoned darts at the world around him. Quartermaine's Terms is Gray's gentlest and most compassionate play. No stiff upper lips need apply. The drama's hero, or non-hero, might be called "Mr. Cellophane," after a song in the musical Chicago. People see right through him. They scarcely remember his name, though "St. John [pronounced Sinjon] Quartermaine" (Remak Ramsay) seems fairly emphatic. He dozes off in mid-conversation...