Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crime with a long history, and, it appears, a promising future. Like most problems that won't go away, it lacks glamor. It is dismissed as a "women's problem," and it is ignored until a particularly brutal incident like this New Bedford rape brings it with a crash into our headlines and consciousnesses...
...loves to cry and apparently wants everyone else to join him in a grand boohoo. He plays a divorced father who takes his three children, after years of neglecting them, on a Mediterranean cruise and, en route, learns that his ex-wife has been killed in a car crash. Director Robert Lieberman overlooks no cliche and lets no banality pass him by. For collectors of awkward moments, treasures abound; but the best such moment takes place beneath the Pyramids. Nothing is permanent, Voight tells his children, and some day even these mighty monuments will be mere sand...
Then Maryland Republican Charles Mathias turned the tide. He noted that Reagan and his top aides "are all innocent of experience in the complex and bewildering world of arms control." He added in biting understatement: "I would hope that Mr. Adelman could be excused from taking a crash course in a subject upon which, until now, he has not concentrated. The President can then enjoy that privilege so rare in human experience, a second choice." With that, Percy knew the vote would be 9 to 8 against the appointment. He turned to Cranston and said, "I am going...
...Stevenson's Colonel Blake had been as much a MASH misfit as Frank Burns: a suburban doctor reluctant to command, with a fisherman's wily patience and a heart of puppy chow. When Stevenson departed after the third season (his character was reported killed in an airplane crash in the Sea of Japan), Harry Morgan as Colonel Sherman Potter took over. A cavalryman in the first World War who turned medic and was Regular Army to his jodhpurs, Potter became the stern but sentimental father figure every MASHman needed 7,000 miles from home. Similarly, B.J. Hunnicut...
...States, however, is much more than a vanishing block of ice. Anderson's theme is nothing less than the dehumanizing crackup of modern society, and she treats it with an elaborate structure of symbols and images. Airplanes are a metaphor for physical risk (she was in a plane crash once), weightlessness and enforced camaraderie; dogs become a symbol of nature in harmonious, trusting alliance with humanity; the telephone is used both as an instrument of impersonal communication and the conveyor of whispered intimacies. Although there is no story line, Anderson strings her ideas together with deft, homey wordplay...