Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus so that a complete, fully plotted detective story about a crooked Texas Ranger can be misplaced, almost unnoticed, in one , corner. A dominant central figure might hold all of this together, but the novel's heroine, Texas newspaperwoman Betsy Throckmorton, is something less than the gale-force wind that is needed, and her role becomes that of an agreeable mistress of ceremonies...
...ball as far as he could, arguing that once you had length you could work on control. Norman now averages 280 yds. a drive; 260 yds. is considered good for a top pro. A few years back, during a pro-celebrity tournament at Gleneagles in Scotland, a wind-aided Norman drive measured 483 yds. Under Earp's tutelage Norman began cleaning up in amateur tournaments, and at 19 he took a $28-a-week job as assistant pro at the Royal Queensland Golf Club. There, playing for large sums with local high rollers, he learned to perform under pressure...
...pretty much able to block out the cold," Peterson said. "And after we had won, and the fans had rushed on the field, the wind started kicking up. Then I realized maybe we should take the celebration back into the locker room...
...cost of $110 million, War and Remembrance will wind up losing the network at least $20 million, ABC executives calculate. Still, if it achieves the average 21 rating that has been promised to major advertisers, the series will be counted a success. If it does significantly better than that, it may even rekindle network interest in these extravagant sagas...
Movies have trod this turf once or twice before; the mid-'50s were rife with such sprawling family sagas (Giant, Written on the Wind). And it might seem as if such broad emotions, such guileless ironies, have no place in our blandly cynical age. But Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) strides easily among movie cliches. His gift is to play them as if they're all new and all true. And this time he has a cast to lend them flesh and nuance. Quaid creates a genuine pathetic hero, first exuding charm, then marketing it. And Hutton...