Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atomic test blast through the windshield of a truck parked 20 miles from ground zero. He claims to be perhaps the only person not wearing dark glasses to look directly at the explosion, "this white light changing into yellow and then into orange." A chain reaction is not a bad analogy for Feynman's life. From a critical mass of gray matter it goes off in all directions, producing both heat and light...
...Sutcliffe), for nearly $4 million a year. "It isn't the fans' fault that the sport has become so expensive, but they'll be the ones deprived of sunshine," says Bill Veeck, baseball's longstanding conscience. "In all history, these fans in Chicago have been the least affected by bad ball clubs, but television teams have to win." If anyone questions whether the Chicago players are fundamentally baseball or television stars, consider the remarkable fact that the Cubs of the free-agent era jumped ten places, to fourth in payroll spending last year. Soon 100% attendance at Wrigley Field...
...during the first three quarters of 1984, and 79 institutions failed. In addition, Government regulators put 817 of the 14,700 U.S. banks on their "problem list." The worst problem was Continental Illinois, which started the year as the seventh largest U.S. bank. It would have collapsed under its bad loans if the U.S. Government had not provided a $4.5 billion bailout in July. Federal regulators took control of the bank, installed new management and fired most of the directors...
GEORGE ANTHEIL. LA FEMME 100 TETES (CRI). Pianist David Albee plays 45 wildly inventive preludes (1933) by the bad boy of American music...
HURLYBURLY. The evil of banality: this is the subject of David Rabe's comedy of modern bad manners. His men are Peter Pan's lost boys grown older but not up; his women are resilient rag dolls. Director Mike Nichols and an exemplary cast evoke these dead souls with compassionate intelligence...