Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kool-Aid" Mom, who gratefully remembers how her own mother used to serve tall glasses of juice to the thirsty kids on the block. Although these black-and-white flashbacks of Americans are tolerable in 30-second packages, their flat sentimentality cannot sustain an audience for two hours. Swing Shift, the film that professes to tell what happened when "the men went to war and the women went to work," completely fails to represent the dynamic period of World War II America...
...Swing Shift tells the story of a young woman Kay Walsh (Goldie Hawn), who marries her high-school sweetheart, Jack (Ed Harris), only to find her blissful newlywed life disrupted by the reality of World War II. With the outbreak of war, Jack immediately enlists in the Marines. When Jack leaves, Kay gets a job at a factory which makes fighter planes and works the late swing shift with hundreds of other newly employed women. At the factory she meets and eventually falls in love with one of the line leaders. Lucky (Kurt Russell), who was turned down...
...little change in his pre-swing motion, some batting practice in the Leverett House basement and "a lot of work in the off season" changed the 218 bitter of 1983 into the 333 bitter...
Like the four-minute mile for runners, an annual income of more than $1 million for a U.S. corporate executive once appeared to be a barrier that would be nearly impossible to break. Now, with the economic recovery in full swing, a combined salary and bonus in excess of $1 million is becoming almost commonplace...
...affection for money is as legendary as he is, but since Snead profited by only $14,526 last year (admittedly, in 1937 he had to play all year and win four tournaments for that kind of prize money), something more than dollars must be at stake here. "I swing my driver now," he says, "but when I get to hitting those off-color shots, I want to throw the clubs in the closet forever and go hunting. But the funny thing is, I'm getting so I don't like to kill anything any more...