Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carter was feted at some of the most fashionable spots in New York City. Restaurant patrons, overhearing his claim to fame, would come up and ask for his autograph. Photo editors at the major magazines wanted to meet the new hotshot, dressed in his black jeans and T shirts, with the tribal bracelets and diamond-stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela's new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world's best photojournalists. "It can be a very glamorous business," says Sygma...
...hotshot columnist-author played by Nick Nolte in the summer comedy I Love Trouble runs into a lawyer friend, played by Saul Rubinek. "I'm dying to read your book, man," says the lawyer. "When is it coming out on tape?" It is hardly a surprise that Rubinek's character turns out to be the movie's chief sleazebag. What kind of shallow, no-time-for-anything '90s philistine confuses listening to books with actually reading them...
Still another Wolf Creek Hotshot, Richard Tingle, 34, spoke of the release into selflessness that joining a fire-fighting team can bring: "You're not an individual here. If you work as one person, you'll never make it." And a few veterans casually mentioned the pay, which can reach $200 a day. Some fire fighters, so the stories they tell one another go, earn enough during the summer months to pay college tuition or living expenses for the rest of the year...
...become oppressive, the attempts to breathe new life into them almost laughably desperate. America's Talking will offer such quirky variants on the talk-show form as Am I Nuts? (psychologists offer advice to people facing everyday stress) and Pork (its single topic: government waste) On ESPN2, the hotshot hosts can be abrasive enough to provoke violence (New Orleans Saints quarterback Jim Everett, taunted by interviewer Jim Rome this spring, overturned a table and pounced...
This is not to say that this situation will last forever. Maybe the Harvard aura will wear on him, too. After all, as a hotshot young coach, Restic nearly accepted an offer to coach the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles before deciding to spend his twilight years in Dillon Field House...