Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of four days last week, Mondale holed up in his Washington, D.C., home, diligently preparing. In white sneakers and an old pair of bell-bottom blue jeans, he slumped in an armchair, studying a black briefing book of some 25 likely questions. Then he moved into his dining room, temporarily transformed into a television studio, to engage in mock debates. The part of Reagan was usually played by Columbia University President Michael Severn, a former law professor of Mondale's at the University of Minnesota. Severn affected Reagan's affable style, even his phrasing and sentence patterns...
...defensive play that all armchair quarterbacks will remember is the fourth-quarter Wilkinson interception return for a touchdown that turned a precarious Harvard lead into an insurmountable Crimson advantage...
That fan. And the ponytail. And those sunglasses that sit on his nose like the windshield of a small Italian sports car. And that walk: precarious, tippy-toed, tilted so far toward the ground that his knees seem almost like the brass casters underneath an antique armchair. Calvin Klein may be the image of a pumped-up nature boy, Yves Saint Laurent of a tropical flower that would wilt in direct sunlight. But Karl Lagerfeld looks just like, unmistakably like ... well, a fashion designer...
...size, they are babies in waiting, life on ice, kept for possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder an area of the law that is indeed embryonic...
...bare red Jones at light center bulb stage, reveals the slumped Rev. in that familiar straight-backed armchair, legs akimbo, dark glasses shading eyes that gaze off dissolutely into space. The image has become one of our era's most indelible, and the events that sprang from it -Jones' the People's suicide-murder Temple of in 913 Guyana members in of 1978-still cry out for explanation. Jones town Express, which premiered last week at Providence's Trinity Square Repertory Theater, flounders somewhat as it butts against the incomprehensibility of the tragedy...