Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach towels, Liberty dry-roasted peanuts, Liberty tobacco. Moreover, Adams probably could not have conceived how practically everyone in a country of 240 million might be very nearly sated with a celebration that is yet to occur...
Every movie has its season. This one is a summer movie. It will make you laugh only if you've spent the day on the beach letting the sun dissolve your brain...
...looking for a new trashy bestseller to take to the beach with you, there are a number of bookstores around the Square you can try. Words-worth (30 Brattle St.) is well-organized and has the best service of the bunch, as well as a small discount. Right across the street, Paperback Booksmith (25 Brattle St.) stays open until mid-night every day of the week. It stocks a wide variety of general reading and has a different selection of classical music to browse to daily...
...trainer: "There's only so much you can teach a duck.") At Sea World the dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry to pre-Beatles rock in the Beach Blanket Ski Party show. As at Disney World, Sea World works hard to elicit one of two reactions from its visitors: awe ("Isn't that amazing!") and awwww ("Isn't that cute!"). Because Sea World's stars are live animals and not electronic humanoids, the reactions are genuinely effusive...
...decade, no question, a reclining era of good tans, big parties, beach reading, girl-group music. The stars are bigger than they have been in a long time, selling more billions of dollars worth of records and movie tickets than ever before. Celebrities are more numerous, but their fame is briefer: the half-life even of putative superstardom can be as short as a year. Fads are announced, exploited and abandoned even before Good Morning America can cover them. Philanthropy has turned into a series of prefab, single-issue Woodstocks (Live Aid, Farm Aid, Hands Across America...