Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the century and a third of challenges, lately spaced three summers apart, the dandruffy commodores of the New York Yacht Club (N.Y.Y.C.) kept polishing the silverware and admiring their own mugs. "It's a boat race," Red Smith used to like to write in the New York Herald Tribune, "in the horse-racing sense of the term." Meaning the result was pretty well arranged. If the rules were not rigged, they were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away...
...addition to the minimal price tag, Brown is asking that would-be buyers submit detailed plans of how and where they plan to more the house, The Daily Herald reported...
...decide to get back in circulation, figuring a man of experience is bound to have good job prospects. You apply for a job at the Miami Herald. You are told that, yes, you have excellent journalistic credentials. A job is virtually assured. But there is one final matter to attend...
Times change. The Miami Herald told me, give us some urine and we will give you a job. Why do you want my urine, I asked. It sounded like an uneven trade. They told me they wanted to know if there were drugs in my urine...
...Malibu. What other commodity offers such a blend of transcendence and fiscal display? Buying is a spectator sport, and the art gallery the Nautilus center of the soul. But in Movieland, the heat of egotism creates a desire for equal screen credit. Where else would a museum herald a show of Picasso sculptures, as LACMA did a couple of years ago, with a crimson banner on its facade: THE WOLPER PICASSOS, as though the schlockmeister of the Statue of Liberty had helped make them by buying them...