Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show biz. "I think of myself as a black male Lucille Ball," he says. "I like making people laugh." Indeed, can one imagine the reclusive Yves Saint Laurent skateboarding a la Kelly through Paris' seedier neighborhoods? Picture crusty Karl Lagerfeld nude from the waist up, posing for Vanity Fair, with red buttons over his nipples and 16 satin bows on his pigtails? Such antics have charmed the powerful French fashion press. "Le mignon petit noir Americain," enthused one Paris newspaper -- although in America being called a cute little black would seem more like an insult...
...even the green fields of sport. Is nothing sacred? Sport, after all, was supposed to be the arena we could visit to get away from ugly realities, refresh our sense of grace and possibility, and enjoy the catharsis of a well-defined universe, presided over by umpires who distinguish fair from foul. This year, however, as the regenerative cycle of baseball's spring comes round again, there is less of a sense of a new beginning: not only has one of the game's most upstanding onetime icons, Steve Garvey, been revealed as a three-timing playboy, but its finest...
...month. The Democrats haven't said yes yet, but they have been willing to listen. "There's a lot more trust with these guys than there ever was with the Reagan crowd," says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, a persistent critic of Reagan's Central America policy. "We're a fair way from agreement, but barring the unforeseen, I think we'll get there...
PUTNAM'S appointment should change all that. Colleagues from the Government Department praise Putnam's commitment to moral integrity. "His most outstanding characteristic is his intense interest in doing what is right and what is fair," said Littauer Professor of Political Economy Thomas C. Schelling...
...team of 21 U.S. observers said the vote appeared to have been fair, but one observer said violence had frightened many people away...