Word: bambi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that somehow it can be given life -if not by talent, then by sheer will. De Chirico's self-magniloquent portraits in armor and 17th century lace are not simply costume pieces, but efforts to inhabit the dream and be a one-man Renaissance. His interminable pairs of Bambi-eyed horses prancing on a marble-littered beach have the same intention. The sum effect is, inevitably, absurd: for De Chirico has no more talent for illusionism than the average calendar artist. It becomes parody-and when De Chirico is not parodying Rubens, Tintoretto or Rembrandt, he parodies himself...
...high-placed diamond smugglers who operate in Las Vegas. Somehow mixed up in all this are an eccentric millionaire recluse (hello there, Howard Hughes), a wizened stand-up comic, a crooked mortician, a couple of campy killers named Wint and Kidd, and two bikinied bodyguards who call themselves Bambi and Thumper. They strike a gymnastic blow for Women's Lib by effortlessly bouncing Bond, the sexist pig, off the four walls of a luxurious desert hideaway...
...Administration set up its new Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for example, it seemed clear that the awkward initials were invented to avoid the more logical name. Bureau of Management and Budget (BOMB). Military men seldom avoid such errors. The Army is especially prone to fatuous acronyms like BAMBI, which stands for Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept. Some civilian agencies are equally dense: ACHE (Alabama Commission on Higher Education), or something the Albuquerque payroll office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs calls Wage and Manpower Process Utilizing Machines, which tactlessly yields WAMPUM. From conservationists: FOE (Friends of the Earth...