Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such an immediate, and ultimately irreplaceable, phenomenon. Initially, it was all a matter of attitude, the low lids, the lip that curled up like a whitecap before breaking on the beach, the musky voice that seemed to take its honey coating from a lot of scruffy worldliness and its distinct throb from straight below the waist. His first appearances were small Pop cataclysms. The sensuous movements that headline writers called "gyrations" and that earned Presley nicknames he did not like-Swivel Hips, the Pelvis-had their roots in roistering responses of some fundamentalist congregations...
...foreign policy issues to which Carter has contributed most are those with a distinct moral tone, and his nearly evangelical championing of human rights has become his hallmark. Seldom does he hold a press conference, offer a banquet toast or make a speech without mentioning it. At times Carter has been more direct, as when he delayed the sale of small arms and police weapons to the authoritarian governments of Argentina, El Salvador and Uruguay because they violate the human rights of their own dissident citizens. Aware of the controversy the issue has stirred abroad, Carter said to TIME Diplomatic...
Each of the wooden coasters has a distinct personality. The Texas Cyclone at Houston's Astroworld is patterned on the Coney Island Cyclone. "It's just a little bigger and a little faster- Texas style," says a proud park official. But it retains the original Cyclone's sheer drops: the first of them, a devastating 53° plunge, bottoms out 92 ft. below the crest. Riders have lost wigs and false teeth in the 60-m.p.h. near freefall. St. Louis' Six Flags boasts the Screamin' Eagle; No. 1 in the Guinness Book of World Records...
There is lager, that aged beer, redolent of malt and yeast, as cold as a riverbed and as hearty as an anthem. Or ale, with an aroma the patron can walk on. Or porter and stout, those distinct dark ales with creamy heads and the personality of Irish storytellers. Or bock beer, with its heady perfume and heavy persuasive taste. Or malt liquor-but the list is endless...
...infatuation with what he called the "rich-rich," he is less intercontinental than Coward. His true territorial imperative was Broadway. The propellent force in his songs is to reach and grab a New York audience. In this production, the women clearly outshine the men. Each has a distinct personality in manner and voice. Maureen Moore has a cheerleader's strut, a wickedly independent pelvis and a blazing trumpet's delivery. She also does the show's most affecting number, If Ever Married I'm, dropped from the matchless score of Kiss Me, Kate. Mary Louise...