Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to come out strong. We can't play catch up," senior Stephanie Salinas said. "We have to score early...
Whoever did not catch on to Springsteen until 1984's commercial breakthrough, Born in the U.S.A., which sold some 17 million copies worldwide and became Columbia's all-time hit album, can now take Live/1975-85 and play an extraordinarily exciting game of catch-up. 4th of July, Asbury Park, which dates back to the "Boss's" second album, released in 1973, has never sounded more poignant or evocative of all its epiphanies down on the Kokomo than it does here, in a performance recorded at a New Year's Eve concert in New York City six years ago. Springsteen fans...
...former semipro baseball pitcher, says to another man who was once his teammate, "You know, I'm thinking of making a comeback next spring." His former teammate nods. The ex-pitcher says. "What do you think?" His former teammate nods again. The ex-pitcher says "Would you like to catch me sometime?" His ex-teammate looks up and says, "I'd rather hit against...
...tackle, and once in a while, he will nod vigorously at something Summerall says, as if in total agreement. Sometimes something happens on the screen that causes Fran to make an abortive gesture in his chair, a twist of his shoulders, as if eluding a tackler, and suddenly he catches himself. He looks around sheepishly, but no one has noticed. ("Sometimes in the bar, I have to catch myself," he says. "I don't want to seem pushy...
Prevailing fashions in architecture, being fashions, tend to change course at just the moment they become mainstream doctrine. The effect (although not the intention, usually) is to make outsiders and stylistic slow learners scramble to catch up. Thus today, as the giant architectural firms have begun routinely gussying up their new high-rise towers in pseudoantique brica-brac -- fake Corinthian columns, pediments and pyramidal tops -- the cutting edge has glided past. As postmodern cliches become ubiquitous, in other words, the movement is becoming passe...