Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night before his top-ranked Fighting Irish were going to play the second-ranked University of Southern California, Holtz told his squad that he was going to suspend two of its best skill-players, tailback Tony Brooks and flanker Ricky Watters...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
Such quickness will be needed if the Irish are to speed by their two remaining opponents. They must deal with a weakened but still formidable Penn State and, in their final game, with No. 2-ranked U.S.C. If successful, the Irish will probably play currently unbeaten West Virginia in either the Fiesta Bowl or the Gator Bowl, a contest that could decide the national championship. But overconfidence is not in Holtz's playbook. Says he: "Right now -- I don't care what the polls say -- we're not the best in the country. But maybe...
...madness -- sold-out arena concerts, two No. 1 singles, a No. 1 album, a deluge of magazine covers -- U2 knew they were adrift. It wasn't simply that the velocity of their incredible success had cut them loose from their moorings. Superstardom beamed a sudden, harsh light: the Irish band had no strong musical foundation at all. There was a sudden shared awareness among them that their center could not hold because it had never been firmly fixed...
...listeners learning English as a second language. The familiar opener for Radio Newsreel -- a brassy rendition of Imperial Echoes, with its resonance of a colonial past -- is gone and may not be missed. But news programs will still be introduced with a revered sound: the bouncy tune of the Irish song Lilliburlero and the muffled chimes...