Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since there is nothing like a dame, only a cockeyed optimist could confuse Bob Hope with the real thing. The comedian shed his golf togs and donned a tropically fruity outfit for this week's NBC-TV special celebrating his 78th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the U.S.O. During the taping at West Point before 25,000 cadets, officers and onlookers, Hope sprang eternal. He sparred with Sugar Ray Leonard and teamed up with Mary Martin, 67, to reprise a number from South Pacific. "If I entered the Miss U.S.A. contest,"said Hope, "I'd probably...
...Congress set up the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, a 16-member panel led by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, to review the current laws and to recommend changes. In its report, delivered last March, the commission recommended raising the number of legal immigrants and refugees admitted to the U.S. and granting amnesty to most illegal aliens already here. Yet the panel also advised imposing sanctions against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and adopting a reliable means of identifying persons eligible to work in the U.S. A Reagan Administration task force...
Like the computer, dance routines have become phenomenally sophisticated. Tony Charmoli's dances in Woman of the Year are distinctly derivative and nearly obsolescent. But then, this show's staying power is not in its gypsies but in the dame with "legs...
...mystery has always surrounded Allen, as if no one is sure what he is going to do next, even if it is not likely to be too dramatic. An avid student of foreign affairs since his days at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned his B.A. and M.A., Allen, 45, has frequently run into opposition because of his unyielding hostility to the Soviet Union. He joined the Nixon presidential campaign in 1968 and was soon elevated to chief foreign policy adviser even though he was then only 32. After the election he joined Henry Kissinger...
...destined to solve the unscrambling problem at all, it will take you somewhere between five hours and a year." Among other hazards, Hofstadter lists Cubitis magikia, "a severe mental disorder accompanied by itching of the fingertips that can be relieved only by prolonged contact" with the cube. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, a former mayor of Manchester, England, had to be operated on for tendinitis of the thumb after a protracted cube-twisting session. A woman in West Germany who gave her husband the cube for Christmas is seeking a divorce because of it. Her complaint: "My husband hardly speaks...