Word: helms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Midlife is a blinded navigator, frozen at the helm with a hoary smile on his face impossible to read except by other ninnies in their 40s and 50s, who, like him, through no fault of their own, have been handed control of the world. Control of the world? What a snap! It's control of oneself that takes real skill. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. An entire stage of life compressed into a symbolic five-week journey of light and dark, crying and singing. And here comes Captain Midlife, dopey as the day is short, hollering orders into...
...baseball impressario Peter V. Ueberroth should the commissioner, as expected, enter politics with a race for president of Austria. (Polls indicate a "Vote Ueberroth, He's an Uebbermensch" campaign is a surething.) But the legendary Red Sox fan has begun to drop subtle hints that his year at the helm of the Senior Circuit has tempered any hopes he may have harbored to be appointed philosopher-king of the national pastime...
...Game: Harvard Coach Joe Restic hopes the fiasco against Penn doesn't happen again in the Yale Bowl. Will Bruce Jacob (25 out of 26 extra points, five out of 11 field goals) get another chance or did sophomore Brian Kotz (2/2, 25-yd. field goal) take over the helm? Punter Alan Hall has punted 65 times and has a respectable 33.2 average...
...years ago, the Harvard volleyball coach left Boston College after 10 years at the helm of the highly succesful program...
...travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs (including Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die) on the pop charts. But their signal influence was closer to home. In the '60s, Bond spawned a whole genre of superspy imitators: Matt Helm and Harry Palmer in movies, Maxwell Smart and the men from U.N.C.L.E. on TV. Later a young generation of filmmakers found inspiration in the series' success. The past decade of high-tech adventure movies, from Star Wars to Raiders of the Lost Ark to RoboCop, would be unimaginable without the brut...