Word: kennerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion clothes and high-tech gadgetry. Shoppers are buying Oriental rugs, videocassette recorders, fur-tipped sweaters, microwave ovens and lots of costume jewelry. In toy departments, traditional and huggable products are upstaging video games. This year's hits: Coleco's pudgy Cabbage Patch Kids (about $35) and Kenner's fuzzy Care Bears (about $23). Military toys like Hasbro's G.I. Joe have also made a comeback...
...culture is without proverbs, but many are poor in aphorisms, a fact that leads Critic Hugh Kenner to hail the ancient phrases as something "worth saying again and again, descending father to son, mother to daughter, mouth to mouth." Gazing at The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, he lauds the short and simple annals of the poor. But he holds The Oxford Book of Aphorisms at the proverbial arm's length: "What the aphorisms lack is the proverb's ability to generalize. They have the air of brittle special cases: How special indeed my life is! How exceptional...
...beyond the runway and apparently never rose more than 150 ft. into the air. "It didn't seem to be able to get up," said Mike Scardino, who was driving nearby. Two miles east of the airport, Evelyn Pourciau looked up at the sky from her neighborhood of Kenner, a middle-class suburb of one-story brick houses. "I saw the belly of it," she said about the 727. "It was spitting and popping like it couldn't get the motor running." Watching in horror, other residents saw the 727's left wing tilt toward the ground...
Captain McCullers could not make it. His plane struck a power line, veered farther to the left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...