Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantage of the unbeautiful ones-with thigh-high socks and knee-high socks, cuffers (a.k.a. anklets) and the leg warmers that dancers have worn for years. One or two or all of these furbelows may be worn at the same time, and they can be used to make endless variations on a theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every...
...appeal. Everyone loves the little guy who overcomes tremendous odds to become a hero, right? If any more of these films are made, the theme will be beaten to a hasty death, which seems inevitable (and desirable) since Hollywood will only risk money on a proven formula; witness the endless sequels to witless movies that bring in the bucks. Benson will probably come up with Son of One on One next year and follow that with One on One Meets Godzilla, or something equally inane...
...Columbia Broadcasting System offers endless, some would say interminable, hours of football and basketball, without either a sense of humor or a sense of proportion. The last is just as well for CBS. Football players have been fed and exercised into gargantuan size. Basketball players have been crossbred with giraffes. CBS announcers suggest we identify with football and basketball stars. I identify more easily with King Kong (in the original black-and-white version...
Sulzberger also pensioned off whole lumberyards of executive deadwood on the paper's 14th-floor management corridor and hired younger men. Then he spirited his biz kids off to secluded conference centers for endless sessions devoted to planning, budgeting, lectures from management experts and other exercises that Timesmen had never endured before "The editors would say, 'How can we have a budget when we never know what the news is going to be tomorrow...
...sisters to the office on Sundays to meet the editors. Sister Judy, closest to Punch in age and temperament, is indirectly responsible for his intriguing nickname. His father marked the boy's birth with a verse* about how he had arrived "to play Punch to Judy's endless show...