Word: hula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman wearing a crown of green mountain ferns and drapery that looks vaguely Grecian stands alone, arms upraised, and chants in a strong voice to ancient gods. This is polite and also prudent. Kau'i Zuttermeister, 78, is a hula dancer, and she accepts mainland Christianity, first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 by missionaries. But her uncle Sam Pua Haaheo, an elderly kahuna, or expert practitioner, who taught her the chants, dances and drumming patterns of traditional hula 60 years ago, told her to "pray first to the gods of your forefathers. They were here first...
...order. Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work on Oliver North. When bait-and-tackle shops on the Maryland shore hang GO OLLIE signs, it is safer to concede that some things, like the Hula-Hoop and the Gabor sisters, are not explicable...
...dates back to the era of tail fins and Hula-Hoops. Finally, after 30 years of frustration, the Justice Department is preparing a new offensive in its continuing struggle to cleanse mob stains from the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Federal officials confirmed last week that the Government plans to file a path-breaking civil suit asking the courts to replace the national leadership of the Teamsters with a federal trustee. The takeover bid would not affect the upcoming criminal trial of Teamster President Jackie Presser on federal racketeering charges...
...have made a commitment to electronic literature beg to differ. Newman Communications Corp., one of the fastest-growing tape publishers in the U.S., began in 1981 with sales of less than $200,000, which leaped to more than $7 million three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base of the business continues to grow every year, and bookstores continue to dedicate more space to books on cassette." Another successful producer, Listen for Pleasure, also refuses to heed the Cassandras. "At first no one understood what we were...
...often in much of the reporting that poured in from around the country. Senior Editor Robert T. Zintl, 38, conceived the idea of commemorating the 40th birthday of the first wave of Baby Boomers, enabling TIME staffers to pull together the disparate elements of the Baby Boom experience, from Hula- Hoops to the Viet Nam War, from jogging to two-income families. Says Zintl: "To me, the central issue was how these 'aging children,' as Songwriter Joni Mitchell once called us, would at last face the responsibilities of being adults." The father of two teenage girls, he adds, "I sometimes...