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...Cubs. He could score about 30 points a game and do lay-downs like they were the easiest thing in the world. He was great. But then they gave him an umpiring job and all he was allowed to do was stand in the end zone and yell instructions to the other players, telling them when to pass or when to run or when to use a six-man zone defense--stuff like that...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: An Abased Ballgame | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

Cheech and Chong have stuck with a successful shtick for years. People, they have discovered, find it a little thrilling to see illicit drugs on the big screen, thrilling enough that they will howl and yell and carry on at the sight of the drug. And so the pair, aging Chicano drifters, draw laughs with an elaborate series of sight gags and one-liners, all connected to dope...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Smoked | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...rustlers, but his murderous skills and cranky in dependence make the clean-shirt-once-a-week crowd nervous. Before long, sure enough, they frame him for the cowardly killing of a boy of 15. The situation is al most self-consciously classic, and there is a temptation to yell "Come back, Shane!" at the screen. But it is a pleasure to watch Steve McQueen's tough, weathered mug as he speaks the lines given to Tom Horn, an actual turn-of-the-century frontiers man. If there is a bit too much of this sort of satisfaction, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Frontier's End | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...take off not just hours but even days late. One foreign traveler waited in a Moscow airport for 17 hours before his flight to Tbilisi was announced. His airport bus proceeded to roll along the tarmac and stop at three different planes; at each one the ground hostess would yell out: "Is this the plane to Tbilisi?" The bus finally came to the fourth-and right-plane. There was only one problem: no pilot. The traveler finally abandoned the effort at 3 a.m., luggage unclaimed and Tbilisi unvisited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Of Aeroflot, Volgas and the Flu | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...rejected by huge margins in both houses. So when Carter carried out his threatened veto, the House did not even debate it. It immediately voted to override the President's veto by an embarrassing 335 to 34. From Republican Strategist Robert E. Bauman of Maryland came a victorious yell: "Yahoo!" Next day the Senate completed the Carter rout, voting against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yahoo! | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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