Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer, after the U.S. movie industry had begun its rebound from a 214-year slump to record the biggest box-office grosses in its history, the story was front-page news and real tinsel was flying from every flagpole in Bel Air. This summer the lines outside movie theaters are even longer, but nobody seems to be shouting. The industry appears so robust that its latest gains are almost unremarkable. According to Variety, ticket sales were up 10.5% for the month of July, and about 9% for the year so far, over comparable 1982 figures...
...been successfully organizing, and wooing, local peasants, another P.R.I, loss seemed imminent. Yet when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling party of having used ten-year-old voters, a drunken electoral representative and out-and-out ballot box-stuffing to ensure victory, but it has so far offered no proof of foul play...
...shirts and blue jeans as they clambered up telephone poles and crawled into manholes. Many had never done repair work before; armed with diagrams, they got a quick, on-the-scene education. In San Francisco, two supervisors for Pacific Telephone embarked on a fairly routine repair of a neighborhood box of circuits at 6 p.m. and did not make it back to their office until 4 a.m. Said Eileen Short, Pacific Telephone's maintenance manager: "Sometimes it's the blind leading the blind. They're hanging in there, but we'll see how long they...
...state police barracks and Fort Dix, a major Army base. Though direct evidence linking striking workers to the crimes is scarce, they are naturally the prime suspects. In one case, a striking Southern Bell employee and his grown son were arrested for pulling the wires out of a telephone box in Gainesville...
...this, the lament that ballplayers used to be better remains mostly just a feeling, influenced by modern irritants. Pharmaceutical reports in the sports section have grown longer than the box scores, and money has impinged on the game past the point of cynicism. We look back on impoverished players longingly and regard the present lightly. Awe is reserved for memories, and not always even our own, sometimes our fathers...