Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rooney is a patient man. In the 42 years since he founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, Rooney has enjoyed only eleven seasons in which his team won more games than it lost. The Steelers have not earned a single N.F.L. championship. No other pro football team that has been around so long has produced so little. But for Rooney, now 73, success seems finally to have arrived. The Steelers are the new champions of the American Conference, and they are heading into Sunday's Super Bowl with an excellent chance to beat the Minnesota Vikings...
...N.F.L. owners, of course, fail to see the analogy. Instead, they envision chaos in an open market. "If we do what the players want," says Pittsburgh Steeler Owner Dan Rooney, "500 to 800 guys would change teams every year. What happens to fan loyalty?" Others worry about competitive balance. "The rich teams would dominate," says Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. "You can't run a competitive league that...
...Regency. To watch Williams posing in gold lame, rising from red smoke and diving into a cerulean swimming pool is to understand the blessedness of color blindness. For saccharinity like mother used to make, the film offers a series of backyard musicals in all two dimensions- always featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, always culminating in variants of the lines...
...Choosing Mia Farrow to play Daisy Buchanan is like casting Mickey Rooney as Albert Einstein...
PULP. Michael Caine and-yes -Mickey Rooney are superb in Mike Hodges' high-spirited thriller, which spoofs the mystery genre as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye was supposed to but didn...