Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seniors will dominate the back line, with Andy Lauta at stopper, Sherm Swanson at sweeper, and Bill Champaigne at right fullback. The other wingback slot remains marginally open, with the smart money going on Matt Aaron...
...crew is wary of modern navigational instruments, preferring to depend on triangles, protractors and geometry lessons of old. The hydraulic steering mechanism, for example, allows Cavalier to be guided by automatic pilot, but no one trusts it for work hi shallow waters. Says Seaman Aaron Hairston, 33: "If you had an accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats...
...Hamilton Bermuda when Elvis, the real Elvis--the one with the improbably cool middle name of Aaron--died. It isn't as glamorous as it sounds. It had been a desperation flight from the country, and, at the time, Bermuda, just six hundred miles off the coast of South Carolina, and with Massachusetts perpetually hanging over its head, was the most exotic place in the world you could fly to from Boston for a hundred bucks. It was late August and the Square was too strident. There are only so many times you can sit through the midnight movies...
...adorned thousands of dormitory walls, and thousands of gum-chewing adolescents imitated her long, layered hairdo. But celebrity was an ordeal. Armed guards had to be hired to keep the clutching fans at bay. But at fees of up to $30,000 per week, the Angels got rich. Producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg got even richer, and so did the merchandisers who hawked the cornucopia of pop junk: 4 million Angel dolls, 3 million lunch pails, etc. "It was a milestone," says Doyle. "There won't be another one like it-which opens...
Kate Jackson, then working in another Spelling-Goldberg series, The Rookies, claims credit for some key changes. Says she: "I was pacing the floor in Aaron's office, saying 'O.K., suppose these three girls work for this detective named ... Harry.' And then I saw the intercom on Aaron's desk, and I said, 'Suppose you never see Harry. He always calls them on that squawk box. And suppose instead of tough-mmm ...' And then I saw a picture on the wall of three angels. 'Suppose they're, like, Harry's angels...