Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan was elected, the Boss traded romantic fantasy for a gritty populism and gave birth to Born in the U.S.A., his heavyweight album about everything from Viet Nam to dying hometowns. In this overlong account, Marsh purveys no dressing-room scandal -- apparently the Boss's only vices are driving fast and staying up late -- but discloses that when Manager Jon Landau suggested during the making of Born that none of the 70 songs Springsteen had written were good enough for a smash single, the Boss snarled, "You want another one, you write it." Then he sat down...
...health care and parental leave will probably languish until next year. Labor does not expect to win every battle and realizes that some laws may have to be passed by overriding a presidential veto. But the pro-worker lobby is pushing to get as much as it can as fast as it can. After all, 1988 is an election year, and the political climate can be as fickle as the weather...
Child care is fast emerging as a political issue. At least three Democratic presidential candidates have been emphasizing the need for better facilities and calling for federal action. Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt has proposed that the U.S. Government establish a voucher system to help low- income parents pay for day care. Delaware Senator Joseph Biden favors federal child-care subsidies for the working poor and tax incentives to encourage businesses to provide day care. If elected, he vows, he will set up a center for White House employees as an example to other employers. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
...learn how fast sections of the hull are corroding, the drone poked "stab sensors" through encrusted sea life and rust and measured the electromagnetic field at the ship's surface. Reason: the Monitor's iron and steel combine with salt water to form a weak natural battery. The resulting electric current peels electrons from the hull, making it easier for oxygen atoms to attach themselves; oxidation, or rusting, ensues. To protect the Monitor while officials decide what to do, scientists may attach "sacrificial anodes" of zinc to the hull to divert the corrosion process away from the aging metal...
...years ago David Mamet beheld Art Linson (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) across a Manhattan dinner table. "David," Linson recalls saying, "now that you have just won the Pulitzer for Glengarry Glen Ross, don't you think the right career move would be to do a remake of a TV series?" Mamet was faced with correcting a familiar flaw of biographical drama: "That something is true does not make it interesting. There wasn't any real story. Ness and Capone never met. Capone went to jail for income tax evasion, which is not a very dramatic climax. So I made...