Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking about the young rich hotshot who drives to the game in a Mercedes with Hereford horns sticking out of the hood. The guy who wears a three-piece suit with cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and thinks he's J.R. Ewing and only eats real Texas chili...
...would be nice if professors taught everything, but a professor would be horribly bored teaching QRA, and he'd never be able to understand people's gaps in understanding." For the same reason, Fridkin says, the teaching fellows generally screen out math prodigies. "Someone who's been a hotshot and thinks it's a breeze won't relate well," he says...
...want to jam you right into the middle of it," says Scott. "Whether you are normally cautious on the road or a hotshot, it upsets nearly everyone. Especially the macho types. It's a heavy landing for them to find out they really can't drive and are nowhere near the limits of the car." For reassurance, the student looks at the special brake pedal installed on the passenger side of Scott's Malibu for the instructor to use if a student panics and freezes...
Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...
Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...