Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TUCKER Francis Ford Coppola restores Capraesque would-be capitalist Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) to legendary life in a funny-dreamy biography of the can-do automaker who discovered that prophets often end up without profits when they threaten the economic establishment...
...Mexico City in 1985, for example, was a considerably more destructive 8.1 seismic shock, yet fewer than 10,000 people died. Experts laid much of the blame for last week's shocking toll on the shoddy construction of the buildings in Armenia's cities and towns. According to Brian Tucker, acting state geologist of California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made of 8-in.-thick concrete slabs held together by metal hooks and mortar. Poorer Armenians, he says, tend to live in "very fragile, very deadly houses" made of unreinforced mud and rock. Yet geologists...
...administrators. "It used to be that the student applied to colleges," says Hugh Chandler, a high school guidance counselor in Weston, Mass. "Now it's the parents and the outside consultant." Even the most personal part of the application -- the essay -- is putty for professional packagers. This fall < Matthew Tucker, a high school senior from Wilton, Conn., wanted to write about his cross-country cycling trip, but his consultant considered the subject too prosaic. At her suggestion, he switched to juggling, one of his hobbies. "She didn't write my essay," Tucker says. "She just helped...
What's wrong with playing the game and showing a bit of family to a hungry public? First, the hypocrisy. "Marilyn and our children, Tucker, Benjamin and Corinne, are my strength, my pride, my joy, my love. They are and always will be my total life," confided Dan Quayle to 50 million TV viewers in his convention speech. This from a man who was on the road so much during his two terms in the House that his wife said she often felt like a "single parent...
...TUCKER. Francis Ford Coppola fashions a grand entertainment from the heroic efforts of Preston Tucker to market his 1947 "car of tomorrow...