Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch dolls that grew up and went to seed! Walk through the big arch into the City of Chicago! Go down Wall Street and ride the Staten Island Ferry, with its twin funnels emitting scarves of metal smoke! Visit the Texas rodeo, a whole roomful of giant Celotex steers, horses and cowboys, painted in colors that relentlessly approximate the noise of a barbaric yawp...
...Untouchables,that healthy cynicism about the role of law enforcement officers has given way to pure myth. One crusading knight, in the character of Ness, is out to stop the terrorism of one arch villain. The Chicago gangster Al Capone. It doesn't matter that the legal touches of the dramatic ending--involving a switch of juries--are patently illegal...
...green sports car, a Shelby Cobra. North stood out right away, recalls Fellow Officer Scott Matthews. "He was hot, extremely hot . . . He was a very action-oriented individual, eager to get on with it." While at Quantico, North married Betsy Stuart in a traditional military ceremony, complete with an arch of crossed swords. He had met her on a blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis and she was working at Hecht's department store in suburban Maryland. At first, she refused to return his calls requesting a date...
...sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with their staccato siren song, produced by vigorously vibrating two drumlike appendages...
...January, Republican Governor Arch Moore declared 1987 the Year of Education in West Virginia. Some year. Last week 67,000 state college and university students, as well as 8,300 faculty and other employees, learned that most spring classes would be cut by a week and one college summer semester would be dropped. Reason: a Moore order, prompted by an economic slump, for 20% cuts in state-agency expenditures. Asked Ray Bauer, 21, president of the West Virginia University student body: "Are we supposed to put our lives on hold while these clowns figure out what to do?" Apparently...