Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out, the icemen didn't need any help. A goal 20 seconds into the match let the wind out of the Cornell hot air balloon, and a 9-1 rout left the battered Ithacans with little to cheer about...
...cost to American taxpayers, who wind up underwriting the buyouts to the tune of billions of dollars because interest payments on the giant borrowings are deductible as a business expense...
Luckily, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker had the good sense to end the movie when it starts to wind down. It was reduced in test screenings from 105 to 85 minutes and is still a bit drawn out. Naked Gun is no epic and does not claim to be one. It's not quite Airplane!, but it still flies...
...time. But the directors' shock became outrage when they later learned about the huge piece of the action that Johnson and his top executives planned to grab for themselves: a payoff that could conceivably amount to $2.6 billion in five years. The Johnson gang's greedy overreach could wind up entirely undoing the proposed...
...energetic performance documentary film released last week, is the sound of the band making contact: with music, with tradition, with their audience, with one another. The title comes from Bullet the Blue Sky, their rabble-rousing apocalypse about American muscle flexing in Central America ("In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum . . . Outside is America"), but the substance of these various tour diaries is, in fact, an exploration. U2 did more than reach back. They immersed themselves in American musical culture, splashed and reveled about, and came away baptized...