Word: hoorays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hooray for fun-loving, High School Dropout Cornelia Guest! However, it should be noted that many debutantes have gone on to become lawyers, journalists, educators, businesswomen and civic leaders. Let's not be too eager to sell the American debt short...
When U.S. fighters downed a pair of Libyan jets last August, two choruses sounded in counterpoint: "Hooray! We've finally put Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...
...bitter joke afterward: What better champion for the phoniest of baseball seasons than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Hooray for Hollywood. Former Dodger Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year...
...action outside the Washington Hilton: and the next night it was just a matter of settling back into their easy chairs to tune into the Oscars. And, eerily, as the ceremonies got underway, the familiar glitz and glamor began to resonate with echoes of the previous day's tragedy. "Hooray for Hollywood," sang the chorus-line that opened the show and their refrain became a bizarre theme-song for the events of the day before; there really was a lot of Hollywood mixed in with the shooting of President Reagan, and it all seemed to come together at the Academy...
...HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD. The land of celluloid has finally hit the big time, finally created a spectacle that will spawn sequels, and spinoffs and sell popcorn for ever. And the most fitting irony came at the conclusion of the Oscars: the award for best picture of the year went to a movie that tried to enter the world of ordinary people. The shooting of President Reagan was the horrifying result of ordinary people trying to enter the world of the movies...