Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SUCCESS of "Places in the Heart," Robert Benton's new film about life in the South during the Great Depression, lies with its ability to give heroic proportions to everyday events. Sunday chicken dinners, cotton harvesting, and spring storms are the stuff of this small town tragedy, and in an era when a film's success can depend upon the size of its special effects budget, such intimacy is a welcome change...
...feel really lucky," said Borowitz of his recent success, adding that out of 1000 entries, CBS bought the five most promising scripts...
Fans say that much of the bar's success can be attributed to Simpkins, who hand-picked the bands that played at his pub. "I think he would only play bands he though were good, regardless of how much money they would bring," said Barber. "He did a good job of bringing a lot of bands you wouldn't normally near around town...
...aches for some opportunity to resist effectively. Nevertheless, such feelings cannot bring me to support a course of action that would force this University to deviate from its proper role, jeopardize its independence, and risk its resources in behalf of a dubious strategy that has no realistic prospect of success. As a result, having thought about the issues as carefully as I would, I continue to believe, as I did in 1978, that the arguments for divestment are not convincing and that Harvard should not adopt such a policy
...bonuses of such success is that a writer is virtually assured that anything he writes-or has written-will be published. The Ink Truck is Kennedy's first novel. Dial brought it out in 1969, a time when even the most unbuttoned fiction could not compete against reality. There was more than enough anarchy on the front pages, and few critics took notice of a book about a journalist's buffoonish terror tactics during a newspaper strike. Read then, The Ink Truck might easily have been mistaken for a political statement about the freedom-loving workers' battle...