Word: chops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When 13,000 of the 17,500 American air-traffic controllers walked off their jobs last week, they put at risk far more than their own paychecks and jobs. The strike was also a karate chop at not just a key component of the American transportation system, the largest, costliest and most complex network on earth, but also, and ultimately, a blow aimed at the entire U.S. economy...
...certainly easy to make your own ice cream, especially with the new Waring Ice Cream Parlor. It used to be such a hassle to chop up the ice and to find the coarse salt, but now you can use plain ice cubes and table salt, and it only takes 20 or 30 min. to freeze. I have a very nice sour cream recipe that features whole eggs, sugar, vanilla, and sour cream in place of fresh cream. I also do a fresh fruit sherbet. When Bartlett pears are in season, they have the best flavor. Fresh strawberries and raspberries...
Coke paraphernalia are openly displayed in "head shops" such as Washington's Pleasure Chest and Lady Snow's in Hollywood. Artifacts include gleaming jade cutting stones, gold razor blades to chop the coke crystals and tiny brown bottles for sniffing (an antique gold Tiffany snuff bottle capable of holding two grams sold for $28,000 in Beverly Hills last year to an Iranian). Items like silver and gold sniffing spoons are flaunted on chains around the users' necks. The process of spreading the coke on a table in "lines" for sniffing is as elaborate and careful...
...Lulu, directed by Lee Breuer. Of all the best ART productions, this one raised the most hackles. Breuer applied shameless directorial pyrotechnics--literally and figuratively--to Wedekind's two Lulu plays, and of course to make a single evening out of them he had to cut and chop some. The production was, in the best sense, experimental; Breuer zeroed in on the essence of the myth Wedekind was working out in his plays--the rise and fall of a wild beast of sex--and tried to find a contemporary stage technology and idiom to match. He found it in touches...
...delicate package of budget cuts, Ronald Reagan carefully corralled a herd of "sacred cows"-Veterans Administration disability benefits and Medicare payments for the elderly, among other programs-that he vowed not to touch. Last week, in a move that ensured debate for months to come, the President proposed to chop away at perhaps the most sacred of all cows: Social Security benefits. The plan not only ignited protests from senior citizens' groups around the nation, but finally gave the badly bruised Democrats in Congress a battle they could enthusiastically join-and perhaps stand a good chance of winning. Proclaimed...