Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience filled the bowl of the Waterside Theater. Whole families climbed over the backs of seats to situate themselves. "We can make it," said a woman with a tot on her hip, "but I don't think Granny can get in this way." Granny went round by the aisle, and people stood up to let her in. Well into the show, when Dentist Tucker as Father Martin emoted an illness the script saddled him with, Granny said, "I don't get it. Last year Father Martin fainted. This year he just blacks out. It was better having...
...eight other teams--West Germany, Morocco, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Egypt, the United States, and Costa Rica--will play all of their games on the west coast, either at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena or at Stanford University in Palo Alto...
...rich, Hopperesque sunlight. There is the cooling fog. And the sea breezes skittering up and down the hills. And the abounding good will. If San Francisco insists on delighting in itself, and even showing off - with the All-Star Game this week, the Democrats next and the Super Bowl come winter - 1984 is the year it deserves to be indulged...
...record day for disaster, even by the standards of megalopolitan Los Angeles. Early in the morning, Pasadena police cornered two terrorists in a catering office at the Rose Bowl, site of the Olympic soccer matches. A traffic snarl brought two major freeways to a steamy standstill, and a landslide smothered a chunk of the Pacific Coast Highway. During the Olympic cycling event, a section of bleachers at the Dominguez Hills velodrome collapsed, injuring 50 people. By day's end Angelenos had survived a bomb scare and a raging brushfire...
...book, to name the oldest profession. She skips a beat, looks solemn and says, "Agriculture." It is very hard to catch her off balance. Her editor at McGraw-Hill, Gladys Justin Carr, recalls a lunch meeting in Chicago when Bombeck was publicizing her fifth book, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, hoping to match the previous sales of The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. As Bombeck was about to begin her speech, a procession of waiters entered, each bearing a bowl of cherries over his head. There was laughter...