Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul A. Volcker has grown accustomed to the instant impact his public statements have on the world's economic markets. But when Volcker takes center-stage for today's Commencement ceremony, he will be only an average-sized star in an effulgent galaxy of past luminaries...
...last funny, sad, self-parodying joke as the lights go up: a loud, disapproving, male voice is heard over the loudspeaker, saying "Madonna, get down off that stage this instant!" And Madonna's recorded voice, whining, "Daddy, do I hafta?" Then the Wanna Be's, to whom the war between men and women is still far less real than the eternal skirmishing between parents and children, file out of the hall, dreaming of the time when they will be able to do anything in the world they want. Like Madonna...
Broadway, to its peril, has increasingly gone the way of the movies: it has become a business of megahits and instant flops, of shows that either stake a claim on immortality ("Now and forever" the Cats slogan boasts) or die within days. It costs so much to keep a play running--from $80,000 to $150,000 a week, not counting TV advertising--that unless the reviews are raves or a large advance sale provides a cushion, skittish investors often decide to cut their losses by closing worthy shows right away rather than struggling to survive and recoup...
Reagan and Gonzalez seemed to establish an instant rapport, and even traded anti-Communist jokes over lunch. Reagan told an old one about a Soviet farmer who claims his potato crop is so abundant "it reaches to the foot of God." When a visiting commissar reminds the farmer that "there is no God," the local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit...
...Jolla, Calif., insists that his patients bring in their parents and siblings to help dig out family-rooted problems. His couples may also take part in group therapy to see how other pairs are coping. Ian Alger, a New York therapist, uses a more novel technique: videotaping couples' visits. Instant replays are often so revealing that some partners begin to resolve their disputes almost immediately. He also lends the tapes to couples for a leisurely review at home. Says Alger: "They look for revealing body language and communications patterns...