Word: tinsel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caked in grime, ragged in their new-grown beards, the South Africans had finally begun to withdraw. The last of some 2,000 soldiers were making off with booty ranging from Soviet-made guns to Russian-language maps. Some of their trucks were still decorated with Christmas tinsel. But the condition of the 30-mile-long column was hardly festive. At the village of Mupa, they had to put up a rickety bridge across a swollen river; farther south, they drove past a treasure trove of Soviet-made equipment, including recently developed AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers. After five weeks...
Ryan O'Neal does an admirable job of acting, but Ali MacGraw may have performed a miracle for Hollywood. She is an echo of a time when Celluloid City really was the dream factory. For Tinsel Town, she represents not only an irretrievable past but a plausible future. To moviemakers, she is the Girl Who Made Love Story Happen after six major studios had turned it down-the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star, with the Beverly Hills...
Last summer, after the U.S. movie industry had begun its rebound from a 214-year slump to record the biggest box-office grosses in its history, the story was front-page news and real tinsel was flying from every flagpole in Bel Air. This summer the lines outside movie theaters are even longer, but nobody seems to be shouting. The industry appears so robust that its latest gains are almost unremarkable. According to Variety, ticket sales were up 10.5% for the month of July, and about 9% for the year so far, over comparable 1982 figures...
...perhaps the most profound revelation of the twentieth century. But voiced by someone who's been there-and Goldman has, having written eleven produced screenplays and umpteen unproduced others--the pronouncement helps solidify the murky image we outsiders have of the land of tinsel. Goldman's new book, the autobiography/gossip/self-help Adventures in the Screen Trade comes at a strange point in his career. Although he's had a hand in some of the silver screen's finest fun-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Hot Rock, Marathon Man, for instance-his last critical and commercial hit. All the President...
...doves--with authentic features attached--are one of thousands and thousands of yuletide trinkets sold at this seven-room veritable Disneyland of the Christmas season open one month a year just 20 miles north of Cambridge. Maybe your true love would be more interested in the seven varieties of tinsel, 15 shapes and sizes of candles, or dozen-odd varieties of plastic berry and plant clusters--from assorted nuts to fir and cranberry sprays, ranging from...