Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Cosmos' left wing, Julio Cesar Romero, raced downfield, keeping the ball at his nimble feet. He rifled a pass through a crowd of Seattle defenders to Vladislav Bogicevic who had moved within ten yards of the goal, just off the left post. The crowd cheered, eager for action after 25 minutes of scoreless soccer...
...friend, the People's Republic of China. The occasion was a memorial service for Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, who had died June 12, shortly before his Liberal Democratic Party swept to a resounding election victory. Among the dignitaries attending was Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng, whom Carter was eager to meet...
Jane Curtin, Jessica Lange and Susan St. James play three women down to their last nickels and thyme in High Cost of Living, each eager to drop the bad script life has tossed them, all of them desperate for money. They decide to rob a shopping mall. Curtin, with her wing-nut mouth, bolting eyebrows and thunderous thighs has the biggest role. While she never slips into Mrs. Loopner, or any other of her Saturday Night Live characters, Curtin is not as successful on the silver screen as she has been on the tube...
...done little to hide its misgivings about the first visit by a Western leader to the Soviet capital since the invasion of Afghanistan six months ago. Like some of Bonn's allies, the U.S. was apprehensive that Schmidt might undermine Western solidarity by appearing as an appeaser, eager for detente for Europe at any price. Schmidt's political foes at home, mindful of national elections in October, had predicted that the Chancellor would return empty-handed and compromised...
JACK NICHOLSON plays Jack Torrance with an incredible range of facial contortions and emotional gyrations. He keeps us laughing nervously along, alienated from Shelley Duvall's goofy Wendy, eager to see what new twitch he will add to his repertoire. His eyebrows flap like crazy crows and his mouth and eyes twist into an astounding collection of evil leers. Even his voice changes frequency. This brilliantly amusing psychopath is a stylized mixture of madman and dramatic artist, one glazed eye directed at himself, the other on Danny, who is played to terrified perfection by little Danny Lloyd...