Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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And one thing it's not going to be is boring. Gone is the deliberate, disciplined offense keyed on big guns Fasi and Munatones, replaced with what Bernal calls "a dynamic, explosive offense--as soon as we get the ball we're going to be off and driving."
At 11 o'clock everyone is friendly, wide awake and ready for action. A response of "Nice dress" to "You like that mascara?" leads, within minutes, to "So I told him, if he wants to see those children, he has to stop tearing them up emotionally." A circle of...
Deaver's fussy imagemaking shows up everywhere. It was he, against strong opposition, who pushed for Katherine Davalos Ortega as the keynote speaker at this week's Dallas convention. He brushed aside suggestions that she was boring, seeing her instead as an answer to Geraldine Ferraro. Reagan sided...
But the romantic, down and dirty Dallas that television keeps alive has long since gone. "It's such a straight town," says Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a...
A disproportionate amount of forgettable words at Moscone Center last month came not from politicians but from anchormen and their in-house pundits, whose views were already wearily familiar. (Among anchormen only David Brinkley with his wry sanity brought any verbal distinction.) Politicians can be corny, boring or strident, but...