Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most...
Still to come this season are two formidable challenges for the Guthrie and its audience alike. One is Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's harrowing vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better...
...Many correspondents were working on typewriters and sending their copy by wire." Now, thanks in no small part to training they received from her, they write on computers and use telephone lines to transmit their stories with the press of a key. "Some people take to it like a duck to water," Davis says, "and others require a lot of hand-holding." One incentive for the correspondents to learn, of course, is that they know they can use the system to contact Davis quickly whenever they feel the need for aid, comfort and reassurance from New York...
...controversy over Senator Quayle's military service has recalled one of the shabbier aspects of American involvement in Viet Nam. Middle-class youngsters often managed to duck military induction, while society's less privileged members did most of the fighting. Some 76% of the 2,150,000 servicemen sent to Viet Nam from 1965 to 1973 came from working-class or lower-middle-class backgrounds. Roughly 25% were from families with incomes below the poverty line. Yet college-educated young men stood a 12% chance of being shipped off to the war, in contrast...
...belong to the real Toontown, Warner Bros., in the days when Yosemite Sam and Pepe Le Pew were as popular as Bogart and Boyer. For those who care, Blanc reveals the secrets of the stars: why Bugs Bunny speaks with a Brooklyn accent, why Porky stutters, and why Daffy Duck lisps. Those who do not care, as Blanc concludes, are desthpicable...