Word: bicker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gods talent to hit and throw a baseball better than anyone else in the world. No one in his right mind would spend a beautiful August Saturday in the bleachers at Wrigley Field cheering 27 men in suits -- plus the mercurial Marge Schott of the Cincinnati Reds -- as they bicker over revenue sharing. But put Ken Griffey or Barry Bonds or Frank Thomas in a Motel Six parking lot in North Dakota with a bat and ball, and fans will flock. Maybe Greg Maddux or Jimmy Key will show up to do the pitching. That's the enduring glory...
...playing a wry frontier sheriff. These two guys can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort of standing around waiting for its next good part to develop. Jodie Foster has to work harder as a gambling lady who exists mostly to bicker with Bret, but she's game...
Sinn Fein, the I.R.A. and other Republican organizations constantly bicker over goals and tactics, but when trouble strikes and there are funerals to attend, the intertwining relationships pull everyone together. Adams felt no compunction about attending the funeral of I.R.A. member Thomas Begley, who died last October when the bomb he was planting in a fishmonger's shop in a Protestant neighborhood went off prematurely, killing nine men, women and children besides himself. As is the custom at Irish funerals, Adams "took a lift," shouldering the coffin for a short time on the way to the cemetery. ; That picture stirred...
...concentrated in the cluster of members who served on last year's Council. The cause, I believe, is not so much "seniorities," as UC President Carey Gabay suggested, as "apathy;" an apathy that is an understandable byproduct of serving on a Council that seemed to accomplish too little and bicker too much. With the election on Gabay and Garza in the fall of 1993, the UC witnessed a welcome changing of the guard...
...Aristide Bicker...