Word: bee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quote of the Week: "They're a pretty good team. We put the clamps on them and stung them...like a bee."--Harvard squash player Jim Masland, referring to the team's 9-0 destruction of Dartmouth last Wednesday...
...many people watching stock prices plunge last week, that sense of security dissolved. "I feel a lot poorer today," sighed Bee Fitzpatrick, a New Orleans mother of two. Even if the market recovers some ground over the next few weeks, many people will still be uneasy about the future after seeing how far and how fast stocks can fall. As Columnist Robert Reno of Newsday, a New York newspaper, put it, "Nobody who has been on a falling elevator and survived ever again approaches such a conveyance without a fundamentally reduced degree of confidence...
...years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked for $400,000 when a judge ruled that the 1970 number My Sweet Lord ("Hare Krishna") closely resembled the Chiffons' 1963 single He's So Fine ("Doo lang, doo lang, doo lang"). And in 1983 a Chicago jury ruled that the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love (1977) was a little too deeply influenced by a 1975 ditty called Let It End, by Ronald Selle...
Intentional homage, subconscious emulation or calculated rip-off? For Selle's suit against the Bee Gees, four bars of the two scores were blown up to display a suspiciously exact correspondence of notes; on the witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The similarities between Herman's song and David's consisted of an identical series of ten intervals. And My Sweet Lord really does sound very much like He's So Fine, in melody and rhythm...
...rich get richer and the poor serve lunch. Each day the sunrise set emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway straps might be handcuffs...