Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the Lakers struggled for the prize. The critical shot in Game 4, when Boston could have evened the play-off at home, was a short hook that Johnson added only this season, "lifting his game" in his eighth year. That's the customary phrase, though it makes him wonder. "I was asked to score more this year, but it's wrong to say I've given more. I've always played the role I've been asked to play. The more responsibility I'm given, the more I show...
...Philippines, a foothold in the Pacific. A lot of talk ensues about whether an American empire is a good idea. The speakers include William McKinley, McKinley's Secretary of State John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams, William Randolph Hearst and Henry James, who comes onstage briefly to wonder, "How can we, who cannot honestly govern ourselves, take up the task of governing others?" James' point is valid, but the outcome of the debate is never in doubt...
This sleek retelling of the war between Chicago Ganglord Al Capone and Supercop Eliot Ness has all the right lures: ripe violence, tough guys in chic suits, the triumph of good over venal. No wonder it looks to be a summer smash. It is also a surprise hit for the film' s pricey talent: Director Brian De Palma, Screenwriter David Mamet and Stars Robert De Niro and Sean Connery...
...wonder then that a wave of nervousness swept through financial markets last week when Ronald Reagan announced an epochal change at the Federal Reserve Board, the chief government authority for setting U.S. monetary policy. Political leaders, investors and currency traders in every part of the globe were understandably concerned that a new and untested man was being entrusted with the fate of the dollar, the course of U.S. interest rates and quite possibly the prosperity of the world economy. The change was all the more dramatic because it removed from the scene a commanding figure who in eight years...
EXPECTING. Lynda Carter, 35, curvilineal actress who was the eponymous star of TV's Wonder Woman, and her husband, Washington Lawyer Robert Altman, 40: their first child. The baby's anticipated arrival in January has forced Carter to postpone a network sitcom scheduled for the fall...