Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...locker room where last year at this time the Harvard hockey team had grins 10 goals wide, where only one week form now a glowing Tommy Murray would quietly sit, a Pot on his lap and his teammates yelling and laughing around him, the Harvard hockey team sat silent...
...part of Beanpot legend that the expected will be damned when the puck hits the ice on the first Monday night in February at the Boston Garden. And for the last two seasons (Northeastern in '80 and Harvard last year), the underdog has had the 'Pot in its lap when all was said and done. But if you're expecting it to happen for the third time in a row, watch out. Remember, the expected be damned...
Rarely is a practicing journalist acquainted with all of the principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side...
...hundreds of video games introduced each year, most flop utterly, as if their screens and chips gave out algebra rays or tax-audit emanations. A few do moderately well And once every year or so a new game jumps into the public's lap and licks its face, and proves so endearing that money in unbelievable abundance falls on the heads of its fortunate makers. It is very hard to predict which game will be a lap jumper. Robert Mullane, president of Bally admits that he was not impressed with his first view of Pac Man, the company's most...
Some time early this year, after further tinkering with the game, Kick will be shipped to distributors and then will appear in the arcades. Bally's development people think it is fun, but right now, no one has any idea whether it will be a lap jumper or a puddle maker. "This is the most democratic business in the world," says Mount Prospect, Ill., Arcade Owner Bill Herman. "You got a ballot box, and people vote with their quarters...