Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Passion is also the heart's blood of the theater, and Williams is to the stage what a lion is to the jungle. At its best, his dialogue sings with a tone-poem eloquence far from the drab disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. He is an electrifying scenewright simply because his people are the sort who are born to make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life...
...confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
...networks. Since the late 1940s, the networks have held a virtual monopoly on the viewer's prime time. Now that hammer lock may be breaking. In the next few years ABC, CBS and NBC will be vying-with one another and with some increasingly confident adversaries-for the lion's share of $16.7 billion and more in annual advertising revenue...
Columbia, which barely survived a Dartmouth challenge the night before, also started poorly, but held an 18-17 lion edge at the half...
Early immigrant kickers had much to fear from all sides. "We were not loved," says Yepremian. In the secret hearts of football players, they were interlopers. "When they kicked a field goal," sneers Alex Karras, Yepremian's old Lion teammate, "they'd jump up and down and yell, 'I kick a touchdown! I kick a touchdown!' " Yepremian says, "I was short, I was bald, and I didn't understand football. But worst of all, I walked off the field cleaner than I walked...