Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarottie seem to feel that a ticket to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to commit mayhem on the entertainers...
...amiable atmosphere of a Sunday brunch. Says Editor Ron Neil: "You cannot machine-gun people with information at that time in the morning." The program massages them with it instead. The hosts (modestly called presenters, not anchors) are the avuncular Frank Bough, a veteran of the British sports program Grandstand, and the fetching Princess Di lookalike, Selina Scott, whose alluring television manner may heat up cold winter mornings. But the hit of the first show was the "Green Goddess," a supple Valkyrie named Diana Moran, clad in green leotards, who gently bullied bemused and bleary-eyed commuters at Waterloo Station...
After 14 years in a box seat, Kuhn is returned to the grandstand...
...pronouncements on the pipeline have been inappropriate and ill-conceived, in both style and substance. Certainly the Administration is entitled to voice its strong disapproval of the project and attempt to dissuade the allies from participating--for instance, at the Versailles summit. But there, Reagan was content to grandstand unity and deliver the sanctions announcement once he got home--a clear insult to European officials caught unawares...
Silverstien Senior, no lightweight himself, reached the third base foul line at about the same time Donald Thompson hit the bag and just as his older brother in the leather jacket noticed what was going on from the other grandstand. The concerned parent grabbed the hefty youngster ignoring his own prostrate offspring; and began shaking the kid furiously by the shoulders, shouting something about dirty tactics and violence...