Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to stick his head in the oven." Scampering up from the minors during the last days of August, wide-eyed, 21 and charitably listed at 5 ft. 10 in., Jefferies showed the team that thought it had everything what had been missing for a while: boyishness and wonder. As Steve Sax, the Dodger second baseman, said after the Mets dissolved, "Hey, don't ever forget to have...
...must be an extremely busy man. Long a playwright (American Buffalo) and screenwriter (The Untouchables), last year he also became a director, filming his own screenplay for House of Games. Considering these activities and his myriad other projects (including some here at the American Repertory Theater), it's a wonder that he ever found time to write and direct Things Change. From the looks of things, he must have done it all on his lunch hour...
...people aren't very excited about the candidates and wonder whether it's going to make a difference no matter who wins," she said...
...fall of 1988 and, in network television, nothing adds up. The three networks are still scrapping with one another for ratings supremacy, but the days when they dominated the airwaves so thoroughly are just a Wonder Years memory. Only a few theatrical movies comparable to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest show up on network TV anymore; when they do, most people have already seen them on pay cable or videocassette. Gone With the Wind is no longer available to the networks at all; rights to it are owned by Atlanta TV mogul Ted Turner, who used...
...Sleds wonder if Melrose Park's all-white 65-member police force will protect them. The commander of operations is Lieut. John Carpino. "I don't think there is a racial problem here," he says of the Sleds' problems. "I just don't see it. We're treating it as vandalism. These are pranksters." For a couple of days the city deployed an unmarked car to watch the Sleds. Says Carpino: "Come on, this is 1988. Who's going to lynch who? This is the Midwest. This is nothing to excite anybody about...