Word: byword
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cincinnati, Mondale began sounding less like Hubert Humphrey and more like, well, Gary Hart. With stirring Kennedyesque rhetoric, Mondale intoned, "We must make history, not just watch it. We must invent the future, not just accept it." In the speech he referred to the future, a patented Hart byword, a total of 15 times...
...people who live with it." Added Wines: "We looked at old buildings in Italy and found that they tell us something-about life, mystery, religion. Modern buildings have lost all meaning. We have to bring art back into architecture, not as decoration . . ." Sky finished the thought with their byword: ". . . but as sculpture in the environment...
Looking back, one can see two main reasons why it did. The first was the cynicism and stupidity of most American TV. Essentially, Civilisation succeeded because educated people were sick of being talked down to by the networks, whose cultural coverage, or lack of it, was a byword for inadequacy. They refused to buy Civilisation because they thought there would be no audience for it. So instead of being dropped into some Sunday-morning coffin slot on network, it went out on prime time on PBS, straight to 5 million refugees from electronic gunk. The size of this audience would...
...N.F.L. Players Association is asking for $1.6 billion in salary and bonus money? And that the owners are offering $1.6 billion? If the two parties agree almost to the penny, why did everyone drop the ball and walk away from the negotiating table a week ago? The usual investigative byword-follow the money-is not all there is to this case, however. The issue, explains Sam Huff, a former New York Giants star and now a hotel executive, "is power and who will control pro football. Is it going to be Pete Rozelle, or is it going...
...Education under Nixon and Ford, defines ED's role in these terms: "There will always be a need for federal leadership activity, but we ought to keep in mind who's in charge of the schools." By which Bell means state and local control, the political byword of the Reagan Administration. Since the election, Bell has moved quickly to reduce federal funding (generally by 20% to 25% for most programs) and rule making in the field of public education. Indeed, according to a 530-page study called The Reagan Experiment, to be released this week by the nonpartisan...