Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parisian dramatist Jean Cocteau once characterized his fellow Frenchmen as a bunch of Italians in a bad mood. As thumbnail assessments go, that may have been incomplete, but it was not too far off the mark. France last week continued to be seized by a wave of train and other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset...
Best band and crowd cheer: A perennial favorite: "Hey RPI, you're just a bunch of MIT rejects...and MIT sucks!" Another: "Hey Schwalb, you're not a goalie, you're a Q-Tip!" isn't so funny anymore. The Yale netminder recorded 38 saves in Yale's triumph over Harvard Tuesday...
...great black-and-white crusaders stand up and boycott and protect us from other debased and debasing junk in our culture. Otherwise, we have a right to conclude that they are not serious, just a bunch of effetes moved by nostalgia, snobbery and fear. A Puritan, goes the old joke, is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is having fun. A Hollywood Puritan is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is watching Ingrid Bergman blush red in Rick's Cafe...
Consider, too, the revealing statistic that four of Harvard's road losses have been by five points or fewer. That suggests a bunch of games which just slipped away--something which happens more frequently in front of enemy crowds...
...coming out on top was an experience not just for the Chicago Bears and the New York Mets but for another bunch of sometime underdogs: U.S. consumers. At long last, average Americans got measures of economic revenge for many of the indignities they had suffered in recent years at the hands of everyone from Arab oil sheiks to Wall Street's predatory speculators. For consumers, who had already been savoring three years of economic recovery, 1986 was a time of pleasant surprises and unexpected bonuses...