Word: heep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fagin, Scrooge, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber and Mrs. Jellaby -- so many of Charles Dickens' great grotesques lurk in memory with the clarity of caricatures. They seem made not just for the page but for the stage and screen. As the great popular novelist of his or any age, Dickens has always been filched by other media. And as a social reformer who, as George Orwell wrote, "succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody," Dickens ^ invented outsize villains and situations applicable to almost any taste or decade. The endless Broadway and movie adaptations of Dickens stories testify to the vitality...
...Danny Heep's double, John Shelby's single and a walk to Mike Davis finished ex-Dodger Bob Welch...
...crowd cheered enthusiastically, to be sure, but not with the frenzied energy that would have accompanied the tally in a real one-goal game. Below on the ice, the players celebrated, but without the victory heep of bodies that should have been there...
...Danny Heep...
...Hara was still outside. A window had opened on the second floor, and a man bearing a strong resemblance to Uriah Heep was leaning out. O'Hara shone his light up at him. "Hey you! Is this lady nahmal down...