Word: damp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold and damp on the courts, there were no locker rooms or showers, the hotel food was only marginally edible, and the 6,000-seat stadium stood virtually empty. "This," declared Eliot Teltscher, the world's tenth-ranked tennis pro, "is no way to run a tournament-in China or anywhere else." Other players at the Marlboro Grand Prix Tennis Classic in Canton, the first professional athletic competition in the People's Republic, were in a similar funk. "I didn't eat for the first two days," insisted Tennessean Terry Moor. But the most celebrated participant took...
...tradition long before John Kennedy discovered that his California tan beat the 5 o'clock shadow in the first debate of 1960. Kennedy made a beeline to Lorain from Philadelphia the morning after, and thousands of steel workers turned out to greet the Democratic candidate despite the damp of a September morning...
...corny romantic comedy, part whoop-it-up action exploitation flick, and high-brow, somewhat pretentious anti-war statement (circa Vietnam) and quickie-metaphysical study of Paranoia, Art, and the old Illusion/Reality enigma. The Stunt Man's got it all, even those big, capitalized questions of Significance, which flutter like damp fortune-cookie slogans blowing around in the whirl wind of the movie's frenetic action. There is too much...
...book-publishing party for himself at a Manhattan restaurant. And he even attended President Carter's Inauguration. Finally, after a last interview in hiding, with ABC's Barbara Walters, Hoffman, 44, gave up last week. Said he, outside the state court building in Manhattan: "It's damp underground. I wouldn't recommend the life of a fugitive to anyone...
...attempt to damp down such prices, Dr. Joe has adopted a policy of lowering Argentina's once fearsome tariff walls to allow cheaper foreign goods to flow into the country. Import duties have averaged over 45%, but the goal is to reduce them to 15% by 1984. The Argentine balance of payments will remain in the red this year, despite the export of grain to the Soviet Union following the embargo of U.S. sales to that country in January in retaliation for the Afghanistan invasion. The Soviets will buy $800 million worth of grain and meat from Argentina this...