Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mickey's courtship depend too predictably on '60s pop songs for period flavor. But most of the details ring true, from the woefully inadequate bromides offered by elders ("a woman's got to take the bitter with the sweet, you know") to the constant background din created by the children, to the way Mickey childishly brandishes his fists at his cowering wife, a neighborhood bully grown to frightening stature. The Burning Bed makes its case, and a lot more. It is an eloquent and gripping drama, and the best TV movie of the year. -By Richard Zoglin
Axelrod said he was depressed for a variety of reasons and chose to use the microphone spontaneously. "I don't know which courses to take, the Din & Tonics told me to get lost... and Becky didn't call." Axelrod said of his existential diatribe...
They must have been hoping for the G.O.P. to put on a good show?good enough, anyway, to drown out the din over their own troubles. ?By William R. Doemer...
...Washington Square Bar and Grill in North Beach. Since it opened a decade ago on the site of a former tavern, the Square has become the saloon of choice for San Francisco politicos, media types, sports figures and an assortment of others who can either shout above the din or do not mind it. Walter A. Haas Jr., executive committee chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., celebrated his 65th birthday during a surprise party at the Square in 1981. Last year Mayor Dianne Feinstein presided over a good-luck staff lunch at one of its dining room tables just before...
...LAST TERM at Harvard, when Sabath is not on stage in Fiddler, or T.F.ing a course in information theory, he sings bass with the five-year-old Din and Tonics, one of two all-male a capella groups on campus. The Dins perform about 60 concerts a year and have traveled to Bermuda three times. Sabath considers singing with the Dins "the greatest part of my Harvard experience," providing him with an outlet for his love of the stage...