Word: busters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those days you didn't make a dime doin' rodeos...
Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment. He is an uncompromising myth buster with a taste for bruising intimacy. Neil Klugman of Goodbye, Columbus and Alexander Portnoy were devoid of sentimentality and nostalgia for a lost paradise. Their Newark neighborhood had its charms, but it was basically a staging area for an assault on the sophisticated culture of New York, perhaps even London and Paris. The golden ghettos of suburbia struck them as Newarks with wall-to-wall carpeting...
...REAL DANGER with the discipline rationals is that discipline will become the rights-buster that national security often is. If administrators must maintain some amorphous discipline or national security "posture" to prevent spaced out students from rioting or nuclear holocaust, then what right, what protections, exist? In this case, only a rumor and an anonymous phone call transformed a U.S. constitutional right into a Soviet style promise, redeemable only in a world of lofty words and glorifies lies...
...following days, records were broken, and reputations were made by such athletes as Babe Didrikson and Buster Crabbe. The most sensational events were men's track and field, in which new world marks were set nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn...
...time throughout history," said President Ronald Reagan. "There were many like him in the past-pioneers, soldiers, lawmen, explorers-people who all went out and put their lives on the line for the cause of good." Whom did he mean? An astronaut, perhaps, or a star FBI drug buster. No, Reagan was praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also has a reputation for booze (vodka martinis, shaken not stirred), fast women...