Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceaseless, sickening debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...
...Mapother family faced a plethora of problems. The parents divorced, and Mary Lee moved her children to Louisville. Tom missed his dad, but says, "My father was not a guy to go out and hit baseballs to me. It was my mother who took me to my first ball game." In 1984 Cruise's father died of cancer. He had never seen any of his son's films. Though there was no reconciliation, Tom's father finally acknowledged his domestic mistakes. An edge of anger creeps into Cruise's voice: "But he never said...
HELP WANTED: Head of network programming. Experience in creating hit shows and rejiggering prime-time schedules preferred. Must be willing to work long hours in an almost hopeless cause...
...furor has also hit the media. A recent segment of the popular TV series L.A. Law involved a furrier who sued an animal-rights group for ruining his business. The show aired gruesome video clips of animals caught in brutal leg traps. On an upcoming episode of Designing Women, narcissistic Suzanne Sugarbaker is mauled by anti-fur activists. When Atlanta disk jockey Scott Woodside this month mentioned that he had bought his wife a mink coat, listeners deluged his station with calls. The result was an informal poll in which the anti-fur forces carried...
...most somber note at the session was struck in assessing the state of the Soviet Union. Soviet panelist Andranik Migranyan, senior research fellow at Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, warned that after five years of perestroika, "our economists say we have yet to hit the bottom. The people are acutely aware of the gap between words and deeds by the government. We feel we might be entering a period of chaos." Already, Migranyan warned, a loose coalition of forces -- disgruntled members of labor bureaucracies, ethnic Russian nationalists and members of the Communist elite, or nomenklatura...