Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...created half a dozen outsize hits and made this the hottest season in U.S. film history. Records have been shattered at the box office. Biggest opening weekend for a movie: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (June 4-6). Biggest opening two weeks: E.T. (June 11-24). Flashiest streak for the industry: the past six weeks, every one of which earned $100 million in the U.S. Moviegoers were still lining up to see Rocky III ($75 million in six weeks), Conan the Barbarian ($39 million in eight weeks), Spielberg's suburban gothic chiller Poltergeist ($39.5 million in five weeks...
...late, scandal-plagued Archbishop of Chicago, John Cardinal Cody ("One of the most truly evil men I have ever known," he once said). Assuming Cody's position would be the ultimate revenge. That is a basic problem with Thy Brother's Wife: its mean streak. Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even. Perhaps this is less a reflection of Greeley's art than of his anger. There are many Andrew Greeleys, and there are clearly two working at cross-purposes here: Greeley the romantic, wishing that...
...overactive that it can surround molehills of circumstance with mountains of drama. An unusual need for affection and applause is only the most conspicuous of the traits that impel a person toward the actor's life. Not quite so visibly, the actor type tends to have a streak of emotional gluttony on or off stage or screen. The result is an inclination to inflate the clichés of existence with more dramatic heat than ordinary people can work up. The tendency to view life as though it were play-acting often surfaces in actors' words. Writes Gene...
...want to establish a strong commitment to women's athletics, and the round-robin system is a purer method of determining a champion," said Brown athletic director John Parry. "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens is the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...through the tough times, scarcely a feather has rustled from the Orioles' nest. Manager Earl Weaver has taken a nine-game losing streak and a 10-17 overall record as calmly as the tirade-prone sparkplug can be expected to. And the team has hung together, hoping that time will bring out another resurgence...