Word: boner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Family Ties" and "Growing Pains:" Living the lives of two working parents, a smug older brother (Alex Keaton, Mike Seaver), the self-conscious middle sister (Mallory, Carol) the forgotten third child (Jennifer, Ben), one annoying friend (Skippy, Boner) and a random fourth child who emerges as the series starts to wane (Andrew, Chrissy...
...error or unpredictability. Without those most human of qualities, these face-offs are reduced to mechanical skirmishes that lack any sense of the drama and profundity that are the essence of all great achievements. Speed skating without Dan Jansen's disastrous fall or baseball without Fred Merkle's classic boner are barely worth watching. The passion to create Deep Blue can only be explained as part of our society's continuing struggle with the technological revolution of this century. We tend to trust machines more than people, allowing the former's efficiency to dwarf and overshadow the latters creativity. Sometimes...
...Washington Post has taken to the rigors of a book tour. In the past two weeks she has submitted to interviews with all the usual suspects--Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Charlie Rose and even the profane and dangerous Don Imus, who awarded Graham's just published memoir "three-boner" status, the highest rank in Imusland. After that phrase was translated for her, she was still game, for, as her story shows, the tall girl who had to struggle "not to be lonely" at Vassar has always been drawn to men with an edge--her dazzling but erratic husband Phil Graham...
...teams was hated even in the 1880s); and the long struggle to achieve racial integration. Baseball celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives us Red Barber's famous radio calls, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine and more versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game than you imagined were possible. For baseball lovers it's the World Series, All-Star...
...tabloid dubbed the scandal the GRAND OLE SOAP OPRY, as Nashvillians cringed in embarrassment. After Boner's divorce from Betty and marriage to Peel, the city's mortification peaked when the Boners appeared on Phil Donahue's TV show to discuss, among other matters, the mayor's alleged sexual prowess. Boner also played harmonica while a rambunctious Peel sang Rocky Top. Donahue rightly charged that Boner's conduct came "very close to giving the finger" to Nashville. And Nashville seemed ready by last week to reciprocate. Unfortunately, Boner's constituents have found that the city charter fails to provide...