Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fights, 18 of them knockouts, in matches arranged by the various gyms where he worked out. Ramos also maintained a 79 average at Lehman High School and somehow managed to win five letters in other sports: track, cross-country, swimming, basketball and football. He has a lot to thank his mother and father for. "She's tough, my mom," says Ramos. "And my dad still screams at me when I come home late. Sometimes he locks...
Many tourists expected that the Games were going to be used as a Soviet showcase. In fact, the loudspeaker systems outside the stadiums, which could have been used for propaganda spiels, played pleasant medleys of international songs, the American representative being Sunny ("Thank you for that smile upon your face"). Thousands of flagpoles along the city boulevards and atop buildings bore the Olympic flag. In the stadiums themselves, the most persistent colors were those of the Finns, who waved their white-and-blue pennants, some on poles that telescoped up to 30 ft. or 40 ft., at the slightest indication...
...failings, their resilience that they will be invited back into the living room week after week. The Ewings may be scoundrels and wastrels, but they are good company. Socially they carry themselves with the ease of Middle American nobility. Only at the end of each visit, with kisses and thank-yous all around, do you notice that they have made off with the silverware and your teen-age daughter...
...sisters-in-law, bankrupter of bank executives, agent of miscarriages, avenging devil of politicians, mortgager of his parents' home, suavely sadistic husband-and secretly loving father. (When J.R., after 17 episodes of malign neglect, finally embraced his infant son, viewers responded with nearly 10,000 letters-half saying "Thank God!," the other half saying "Don't ruin it by reforming him.") Hagman developed a touch for light comedy on TV in the '60s sitcom / Dream ofJeannie. He plays the villainy sotto voce and the humor-the infectious delight J.R. brings to the business of malevolent one-upmanship...
...play contains the lines: "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the oldfashioned, grand design. It'll just be for the Brave New nothing-very-much-thank-you." To day, two other lines that begin and end this speech are more striking: "Why, why, why, why do we let these women bleed us to death? . . . No, there's nothing left for it, me boy, but to let yourself be butchered by the women." In 1980 Anger...