Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French Quarter, filled with thousands of convention goers, hosts eager businessmen who stand on city sidewalks, luring Republicans inside. Outside a bar boasting "the only female impersonators in the Quarter," a bouncer wears a "Make Vice President Bush President Bush" button...
...Jackson's lawyers moved quickly to push the stop button on the video venture. Claiming the speech was copyrighted, they sued in federal court, charging MPI with exploiting Jackson's "name, stature and literary, oratorical and creative skills." U.S. District Judge James Zagel issued a temporary restraining order halting distribution of the video until he issues a ruling, which is expected this week. Lawyers for MPI, which has marketed videotaped speeches by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill, argued that the company's right to sell the Jackson tape is protected by the First...
Recently he has been playing with Nintendo, the video game that is the Hula-Hoop of the 1980s. Nintendo draws millions of children into the high- tech, button-pressing world that may be their workaday future. Sometimes John David plays alone, but when his five-year-old brother Christopher is home, the two of them compete against each other. The boys sit together in an armchair pushed close to the television set, their fingers moving expertly across the buttons on a palm-size control panel. They are mesmerized...
After a 7 a.m. breakfast of bacon rolled in a singed tortilla, John David is ready to leave for school. Dressed stylishly in a blue-striped button-down shirt, blue sweater, wide-pocket gray jeans and Nike sneakers, the sixth- grader hops up into the cab of his father's pickup truck for the ten-minute ride to Bedichek Middle School, where a majority of the 1,040 students are Anglo. After school, John David takes a city bus home...
...keep knockin' but you can't come in. 8:35 p.m. Monday: Senator Al Gore, Wife Tipper and two daughters arrive at the gate of the Omni. The guard stops them; none of them have the proper credentials. Gore is irked. Tipper, sporting a button picturing Dukakis, Jackson and her husband, shouts, "Power to the people!" Gore tells her to be quiet. She shouts it again. Gore deputizes someone to go inside to get the proper credentials. As they are waiting, Tipper says, "Let's go dancing" -- but presumably not to rock music with suggestive lyrics. The right credentials...