Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games out in August. Charlie Dressen, Dodgers manager, proclaiming "the Giants is dead." New York papers involved in a grammatical argument over whether Dressen should have said "is dead" or "are dead"--but not doubting the veracity of his statement. Sweet disproof; a three-game playoff; Bobby Thomson's important moment (the eternal antidote to Bill Buckner's legs...
...Arias' efforts after a regional peace plan that he co-sponsored with Reagan proved stillborn. "Oscar Arias is a man of vision," he said. As for the Administration's bid for new contra aid, House Majority Whip Tony Coelho of California stated flatly, "This kills it. It's dead...
...Swahili cry went up in the mountains of Central Africa: "Dian kufa!": Dian is dead. The victim of the slaying was American Anthropologist Dian Fossey, 53, author of the 1983 best seller about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. No one has ever been punished for the machete murder -- a ghastly end for a gentle soul...
...them, who was also her collaborator, has died in a boating accident; the other, whose solace she craves, is not at home. Her boyfriend shows up, and she tries to send him away. Their sexual and romantic intimacy cannot begin to compare with the bond she felt toward the dead man who shared her work. She has never had -- is not sure she has ever wanted -- what other people call a personal life...
...opening minutes of, oddly enough, a comedy, the first noteworthy new play of the Broadway season, which officially began in May. Burn This starts out as a sly sketch of the way we live now, making fun equally of hip characters onstage and of the dead roommate's unseen blue-collar family. Then the show metamorphoses into a scary collision between those two cultures. Finally it becomes a romance between the elegant choreographer and the dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened One Night or, in its brutality and danger...