Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star from the moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could play an existential hero (Duck Amuck), a base canard (You Ought to Be in Pictures), a hard-breathing hoofer (Show Biz Bugs) or a World War II draft dodger (Draftee Daffy). Wily farceur, dynamite showman, he made 126 pictures before retiring in 1968. For years he could be seen only on kiddie TV shows or -- oh, the ignominy...
...procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared an "open season on black people...
...eruption of violence shattered the summer serenity of England, where policemen traditionally carry no guns and where fewer than 50 murders involving firearms were committed in 1986, compared with 839 for New York City alone. Police said Ryan gave no clues as to why he had run amuck. Neighbors portrayed him as a loner who became deeply depressed after the death two years ago of his father, a popular public housing inspector. Ryan, who drifted through a number of laborer jobs and was once employed in a gun shop, appeared to have had licenses for his personal arsenal. British officials...
...President, but how do you feel now about Oliver North and John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane, the aides who ran amuck with your policies? "Well," says Reagan, resplendent in the dark brown suit that has been the bane of the gray-pinstripe fraternity for 6 1/2 years, "I heard them out. I can understand why they did what they did and what their motives were, and certainly they weren't bad motives. And I'm just sorry that it turned out that way." There was no hint of bitterness or even anger in his husky voice...
...rest of Tampopo--the word means "dandelion"--concerns man's pursuit of this association past infancy, until the days when pleasure threatens to turn into perversion, when hedonism runs amuck. "Tampopo" is the central character, a middle-aged widow (Nobuko Miyamoto) who is struggling to run a noodle restaurant despite being a lousy cook...