Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern public relations man. From touting others, he has turned to writing his own epic tragedy, The Spanish Armada. At a rehearsal, everything goes wrong. The actors drop whole swatches of dialogue as turgid and unplayable. The bit players upstage the leads, who swat them. A sword fight is a model of slapstick ineptitude. A Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs; he is, Mr. Puff explains, contemplating politics but discreetly not discussing it. When at last the battle with the armada unfolds, it is a clash between two tiny, hand-manipulated...
Since 1969, only five I.R.A. fugitives are believed to have fled to the U.S., but London sees a point of principle. Declared Thatcher two weeks ago: "If you are fighting terrorism, you cannot fight it on one front. There is no earthly use in our fighting terrorism (in Britain) knowing that Irish terrorists can get away to the U.S." Agrees President Reagan: "(Thatcher) is our staunchest ally in our battle against international terrorism. We need to stand tall with our British allies...
...temporarily, a flurry of war talk that has rocked the region for the past fortnight. But they hardly resolved the mounting problems between two traditional adversaries. Concluded Middle East Expert William Quandt of the Brookings Institution: "Both Israel and Syria have got it in their minds that they will fight another major war, and both are very seriously planning for that...
Harvard researchers announced yesterday that they have found a new gene of the AIDS virus which plays a vital role in virus reproduction and may provide new targets for developing a drug to fight the deadly disease...
...stock car engine at the Firecracker 500: rrroooAAARRRR! the crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight and the players seemed to enjoy raising a ruckus so I tuned out the ESPN announcer who was pontificating about sportsmanslike conduct. A few minutes in the penalty box, I thought. A couple teeth. A little blood. The crowd likes it. The players like it. I like it...Everybody...