Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flash and dash of Miami Vice has not been universally welcomed. Some critics have objected that the show makes violence alluring by dressing it up in pretty photography; others complain that coherent stories and fully drawn characters have been junked in favor of visual flourishes and a rock beat. Some of the show's creators admit there is a certain laxness about narrative matters. Says Lee Katzin, who earned an Emmy nomination for his direction of the episode Cool Runnin': "The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions and energy than plot...
...accent these days is a bit more mid-Atlantic than rural Kentucky, but Steve Cauthen, 25, was showing plenty of Yankee-Doodle dash in England last week as he became the first American jockey to win the fabled Epsom Derby in 65 years. Before a crowd of near ly 300,000 that included his father and Queen Elizabeth II, Cauthen led from start to finish over the mile-and-a-half course on three-year-old Slip Anchor, thereby becoming the sole rider to win both the Epsom and the Kentucky derbies. Ahead by 15 lengths at the final turn...
That was back in 1936, when the shirts sold for about a buck. Now the same % number might go for several hundred times the original price. Now high-fashion designers from Italy, Japan and France are adapting and transmuting the fit, dash and splashy spirit of Hawaiian shirts into a bedazzling array of prints. Now up-to-the-minute fashion emporiums like Barneys in New York City import racks full of new Hawaiians, while Bill Gold, co-owner of a vintage clothing store called Repeat Performance in Los Angeles, will go on buying trips to the Midwest to ferret...
...hoped, but he probably gained some satisfaction from the fact that two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held up their black-gloved, fist-clenched hands in the "Black power" salute while on the medal stand after winning the gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash...
...most popular of these Cretaceous creations deals with eggs. It holds that small mammals appearing during the first half of the dinosaurs' reign stole and ate all the reptiles' eggs; the dinosaurs could not fight back effectively because the warm-blooded thieves were too fast and could easily dash into crevices for protection. This theory might account for the fact that so few fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found, but it does not explain how the dinosaurs were then able to coexist with mammals for so long a time--more than 100 million years...