Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaves the table if salt is spilled, and if he hears very bad news, he sends his clothes, underwear and socks included, straight to the incinerator. When he begins a seven-day engagement at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall this week, Julio Iglesias will of course knock wood several times before he goes onstage. How else will he ever succeed with that fickle and unpredictable creature, the American audience...
...knock-around wear, jeans are in a very stiff competition with muscle-tone fantasy and military madness. The pipestem ideal has been phased out by the beefy silhouette best paraded in a bevy of unisex exercise duds, from tank tops and crotch-clutching shorts to billowing workout pants and pastel sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric...
While many environmentalists and health advocates had urged an outright ban on the toxic element, Ruckelshaus said that some lead was needed to protect the engines in older cars. Lead helps lubricate valves and reduce engine knock...
...WHAT? one can fairly ask, Rothenberg may be over-zealous in promoting neoliberalism as a coherent ideology, but if the idea is good, why knock it? And there are, after all, some pretty good ideas that have emanated from the writers, intellectuals and politicians Rothenberg calls neoliberal. The idea has gotten out--it's hardly a surprise--that maybe the traditional Democratic approaches to things aren't always the best--that there are limits and trade-offs to be made on environmental and economic issues: that entreprencurs aren't all that had and lawyers may be overrated; and that liberals...
...individual citizen of the totalitarian state, the story is dismally familiar: the knock on the door in the midnight hours; the squalid jail where you are held for days without charges; the brutal and degrading interrogations; the phony trial; the years in the forced-labor camp or maximum-security cell. If you are very lucky the nightmare ends with release, exile and the solemn duty to bear witness against your oppressors...