Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly obsolete. All of Singer's short fiction, from long-established classics like Gimpel the Fool to the latest story, hot off the presses, is amazingly of a piece. Three basic formulas are constantly repeated. Unrest stirs a rural Polish village, thanks to the mischief of its inhabitants and their attendant demons. An aspiring young author passes his time in Warsaw visiting the Yiddish Writers' Club and storing up everything he hears and does. An older incarnation of the same man, expatriated from Poland and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, submits willingly to readers and strangers who come...
While Nunn would be ideal for placating Tory Democrats, his conservative voting record would hardly delight Jackson or other liberals. So the hot name on the Veep gossip circuit last week was that of Senator Bob Graham, former Governor of Florida and a Dukakis supporter known to be more interested in the assignment than Nunn is. An affable, energetic campaigner highly popular at home, Graham could at least reel in the South's second largest state, one that is essential to building an electoral-vote majority. Other prospects are slipping into speculation as well...
...excitement was useful--being naked in the Quad after midnight was not a hot idea. "It was a little nippy," said one singer, but "We couldn't do it during the day. We may be crazy, but we aren't stupid...
Miami Bureau Chief Cristina Garcia, who visited Florida's Disney World to interview its "cast members," as Disney employees are called, was struck by their youthful enthusiasm. "For everyone from Eisner to the Hawaiian Hot Dog vendors, Disney is not just a 9-to-5 job. It's a way of life. Ultimately, it's also a way of prolonging all of our childhoods." Senior Writer Richard Corliss, who wrote the accompanying story on the enduring appeal of Disney characters, agrees with that view. He saw his first Disney film, Alice in Wonderland, at the age of seven...
Thanks to its recent blockbusters, the company has for the moment surpassed archrival Paramount as the No. 1 grossing studio in Hollywood. Only three years ago, Disney ranked ninth. Even though the studio could easily slip from its dizzying new position, Disney's hot streak has made it Hollywood's most closely watched force. The company plans to release 15 features this year, up from ten in 1986. Among them: Big Business, a comedy pairing Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, and Cocktail, in which Tom Cruise plays a cocky young bartender...