Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring all the warm garments you can find--wool hat, ear muffs, ski mask, long underwear, electric blanket. And, still, you are cold. You bring all the warm drinks you can pour into thermoses--hot chocolate, coffee. You tuck a pint of something your mother would be ashamed of you for drinking into your coat pocket. You take a swig. And, still, you are cold...
Bopping down Wilshire Boulevard in his Reebok tennis shoes, black Lycra biking shorts, a clean T shirt, red wristbands, sunglasses and a Panama hat, big Tim Brown doesn't look like a typical Santa Monica, Calif., beggar. And he's not: at 6 ft. 3 in., the former Golden Gloves boxer and current alcoholic is an intimidating presence as he accosts pedestrians and dashes into traffic to knock on car windows. "You have to make them scared enough so they'll give you what they have in their pockets," says Brown, explaining the activist panhandling philosophy that he says...
Clever fellow, our fricasseed Freddy. Now he stalks the dreams of his posse's teenage children. A vision of loathsomeness with his moldy black felt hat, scalded face, red-and-green-striped sweater and right-hand glove with steel "finger-knives," he lures each sleeping adolescent to a convenient boiler room (every building in town has one) or into their grungiest fears. And if they don't wake up in time, he executes them. Kind of harrowing, the number of Elm Street kids who die in their sleep. As one boy says, "It's not exactly a safe place...
...gets spookier. The first three Nightmares have sold half a million videocassettes. Next month a syndicated TV series, Freddy's Nightmares, debuts on more than 160 stations, with Englund playing host. The sales of Freddy Krueger merchandise have topped $15 million. The Freddy mask and hat outsold all other Halloween costumes last year. New Line reports brisk sales for two Nightmare books, five LPs and a board game. You can buy Freddy dolls, the familiar sweater and the signature glove (with plastic finger-knives). He's got his own fan club and MTV special. And come October, a 900 chat...
This kindliness had consequences. A parade of would-be Veeps coming hat in hand would be demeaning, so Bush primarily communicated with the candidates through the relatively inexperienced Robert Kimmitt, who was in charge of the background checks. Kimmitt -- the top attorney at Treasury when Campaign Chairman James Baker was the Cabinet Secretary -- was under firm instructions to share most of his findings only with Bush. Thus, despite the broad-ranging search for a running mate, the most vital information of all was in the end filtered through a two-man channel...