Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Denver's season turned around on a 21-14 loss in Buffalo that left the Broncos' record a meager 4-3-1. "I've never been the kind who's been a verbal leader," said Elway, 27, "but I guess I'm going to have to say something." He called the team to order. "I was so disgusted with the way I played in that game. The effort just wasn't there. I decided that my life in football is too short not to enjoy it. Every game should be fun, and when you're having fun, you play your...
Welcome to Wrestling from New Jersey -- er, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, TV's wildest talk program. Since its debut two months ago on WWOR, the Secaucus, N.J.-based superstation, Downey's verbal slugfest has made Phil's and Oprah's "lively" discussions look like sherry-sipping college seminars. Critics are appalled ("A disgrace to television," said Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News), but ratings are rising, and blue-collar fans are flocking to the studio for tapings. After just two weeks, all the seats were booked through the end of the year...
...that most of the movie's confidence derives from Williams. He obviously knows that in Cronauer he has finally found a meaty role. At last, the great monologist gets to play -- a great monologist. Not that so bland a term suggests Adrian's full commitment to outrageous verbal behavior or the lunacy of his situation. The massing of troops as the war begins to escalate implies the massing of a hip new draftee audience, kids who need, among other things, the kind of radio fare they were used to back home...
Robin Williams stalks a concert stage, conning inspiration from the ether. In a nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than...
Computers blink, phones ring, traders frantically shout buy and sell orders in a verbal version of hand-to-hand combat. A typical day on the New York Stock Exchange...