Word: eruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts the microphone around his neck and bumps it on tables, chairs and the podium, causing a horrible noise and lots of feedback to erupt over the loudspeakers in the lecture hall. He turns the volume up, then down and then finally takes the mike off. He decides to talk loudly instead of using the microphone and asks if people in the back can hear. They say no, but he can't hear them and therefore keeps on lecturing without missing a beat...
Senators needed only to look across the Capitol for an example of the chaos that can erupt when seniority is ignored. In a rare coup, Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin two years ago seized the chair of the House Armed Services Committee from Illinois' Melvin Price, then 80. Without the seniority shield, Aspin was himself toppled this year by his party's caucus. He had alienated liberals by supporting the MX missile and the contras, and offended many by his general tactlessness (he likened former Speaker Tip O'Neill to a "beached whale"). After two weeks of frenzied campaigning...
This makes Regan a lightning rod for criticism of the Administration when problems erupt. Resting his case on Iran, the Daniloff deal and Reagan's murky conduct at the Iceland summit, conservative Columnist George Will wrote last week: "The aides in close contact with President Reagan today are the least distinguished such group to serve any President in the postwar period." Regan dismisses such sweeping criticisms. But he does bristle at unfavorable comparisons between his White House (and he often sounds as if he believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly...
Ostriker was thinking not about strings but about the structure of the universe when in 1981 he co-authored a theory on the formation of new galaxies, which are huge islands of billions of stars. Aware that entire galaxies can erupt in explosive bursts of energy, Ostriker had suggested that the force of such mighty blasts would drive away surrounding dust and gases, leaving vast regions of the sky virtually empty and compressing the expelled gases and dust into shells around the voids. It was from this compressed matter, he said, that new galaxies might form...
...best left off the resume. But one film -- David Lynch's Blue Velvet -- cannot be dismissed. An illustrated guide to Krafft-Ebing, Blue Velvet is perhaps the first film since 1972's Last Tango in Paris to scandalize its audience. At the end people are as likely to erupt in boos as to burst into applause...