Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like we are going after the baby-sitters to make them pay taxes." However, the IRS is trying to figure out ways of subjecting tips received by waiters and waitresses to withholding (they are supposed to be voluntarily reported). A more jarring proposal would require businesses to keep back 10% of the money owed on contracts and send it to the Government as taxes on the outsiders' income...
Celebrated outlaws are also perpetual sources of popular revisionism. While the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid purported to document conclusively that the two bank-robbing adventurers died during a fling in Bolivia, some Wild West buffs insist to this day that Butch beat it back to the U.S. around 1910 and lived quietly with relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood...
...toward the plate, a batter would swing at it, and the ball ended up going behind him." Umpire Doug Harvey recalls: "Once Phil's catcher dived full length to his right to catch a ball that looked like it was going into the dirt, and the thing came back up across the strike zone for a called third strike, then hit me in the left shoulder...
...this sounds like the kind of smart-alecky prognostication one might hear on a slow night at Elaine's - well, it is. The celebrity-studded staff of last fall's hit parody Not the New York Times is back, this time with a send-up of tomorrow's news, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989. Due out next month, the 288-page, large-format book (Workman Publishing; $14.95; paperback $6.95) offers a fantastical but not utterly implausible history of "hot years, cold years, big years, little years, sweet years, sour years...
...senior partner (the wonderful British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White) is doddering ("I make my best decisions when I'm asleep") and autocratic, but often he proves to be the wisest person in the room. The firm's most unctuous, corporate-minded lawyer (Joe Regalbuto) may be a back stabber, but he is also a mean wit. When a liberal colleague talks about serving mankind, he replies, "Unfortunately, they're not our clients...