Word: thundering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year the moguls spent $55 million to send Tom Cruise around a racetrack in Days of Thunder, $65 million to launch Arnold Schwarzenegger into outer space for Total Recall, $70 million to help Bruce Willis save a besieged airport in Die Hard 2. The industry would pay any price, detonate any explosion, inflate any body count to meet its megahit expectations...
...averages about 150 m.p.h. in his 670-horsepower gold-on-black Pontiac and is usually hotly pursued by a roaring pack of heavily decaled Chevys, Fords and Chryslers. A Wallace outing, in short, is like a scene from the current Tom Cruise movie about stock-car racing, Days of Thunder. And no wonder: Wallace is the world-champion stock-car driver, and his weekend driving last year earned him six victories and a record $2.2 million...
...Days of Thunder has focused new attention on an old sport that is undergoing rapid transformation. Once a passion solely for the male tank-top, tattoo and feed-cap set in the rural South, stock-car racing is now going nationwide and upscale. This year more than 3 million fans in 16 states from Florida to Michigan to California will attend 29 races staged by the National Association of Stock-Car Auto Racing. That is more spectators per event than is averaged by pro football and major league baseball combined. Nearly 40% of audience members are women, up from...
SPORT: Days of thunder for stock-car racing...
...DAYS OF THUNDER. The perfect school's-out movie, with Tom Cruise's fast driving and winning smile and Robert Duvall's fatherly smarts...