Word: jab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embodiment of big-city scrappiness, a mean-streets survivor who got ahead on a good grin, good moves and better hustle. To a generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired...
...Only four more awards to Jack Valenti--so get ready," warned CoHost Robin Williams in a small jab at the head of the Motion Picture Association. Cher, whose sense of humor can only be described as epic, wore a giant feather headdress--and not a great deal more--to present one award. "As you can see," she said, "I did receive my academy booklet on how to dress as a serious actress...
With cunning and a left jab, the saw and hammer of a boxer, Larry Holmes held David Bey off last week when the latest heavyweight stranger looked strong enough to rip right through Holmes' oaken arms. For four rounds, the only undefeated-and-recognizable champion in the world seemed in awful danger. But when Bey began to fall back in the fifth and sixth, Holmes introduced his right hand, a savage tool, and started to make forceful points, how "this is a very, very hard game," and what "a hell of a job" they had. Later, Bey was able...
Down the hall, William Fitz-Gibbon, 50, whose degree in science is from M.I.T., uses an overhead projector to sketch a physics problem about the path of a falling projectile. As he extends the trajectory, 20 students jab at their calculators, shouting the coordinates of the projectile's path. One student looks up from time to time from an Agatha Christie mystery to call out answers. A young girl interrupts the instructor. He has been applying a shortcut formula to the problem, and she points out that his solution will not work in every case...
...Adam home computer in June 1983, the company's stock shot up ten points in a week, going from $41 to $51. The product looked like a winner. It would cost only $600 at a time when comparable equipment sold for about twice as much. With a gentle jab at a competitor, Adam was going to bite the Apple. But sales foundered when the machine turned out to be plagued with glitches. Even a price cut to $499 and several new features were not enough to save the product. Coleco President Arnold Greenberg last week announced that the company...