Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive as "one dissertation short of a PhD at Harvard . . . Sometimes -- that was the crucial word -- he didn't think the hassle was worth the money." Generally, however, the men breeze through their missions with the jaunty patrician charm of the charmed. The cross fire of their letters -- a burst from Nigel, a counterburst from Adam -- is the British equivalent of the nautical exchanges between William F. Buckley Jr. and his son Christopher. And despite his occasional flaws, Adam remains a visitor to watch. In Texas he describes a horse proceeding with a "constant feather-taut agility, like a clever...
Beginning just before midnight Sunday, Tamil guerrillas burst into four houses in the remote Sinhalese village of Vannela, tied up 15 villagers and shot them to death...
...contest, a Monopoly-based game in which 500 million tickets will be given out and $40 million in prizes awarded. And last week the corporation, which is based in Oak Brook, Ill., and takes pride in its all-American image and the exploits of its millions of alumni, practically burst with delight when one of its former burger flippers, Keith Smart, became the game-winning hero for Indiana in the N.C.A.A. basketball final...
...order to start coaching at West Point, he was obliged to join the Army. PFC Knight earned $89 a month and all the cadets he could eat. Under an intemperate head coach named Tates Locke and an institutionalized system of hazing, Knight instantly burst forth as the most undisciplined disciplinarian since General George S. Patton, or at least Woody Hayes. By 24, he was the head coach at Army; by 30, he had moved over to Indiana University, and as of last week Knight's Hoosiers are the national champions for the third time in twelve years...
...actors make scant impression, although Robert Torti is an oily villain and Greg Mowry a winsome underdog. Andrew Lloyd Webber's pastiche of American pop offers histrionic passages but no memorable tunes. Worse, the races -- the core of the plot -- look contrived. When one "engine" passes another, no burst of athletic elan justifies the triumph; sometimes the jockeying for position takes place out of view, sometimes the team fated to lose just reins itself in short of the finish line...