Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good people coming back from last year and just as importantly we have some tough freshmen to fill out the lower weights," Konovalchik said...
Only a couple of seasons ago, the fans were dispirited, the alumni absolutely agonized. Notre Dame football, crucible of legends like Rockne and the Gipper, seemed headed toward the lower depths. The flailing Irish had not enjoyed an undefeated season in 15 years, and for only one brief spell in 1981 had they attained the No. 1 spot in the college rankings. Head coach Gerry Faust, who during his tenure from 1981 to 1985 racked up a lackluster 30-26-1 record, had let the Irish unravel. Once courted like a prom queen in postseason play, Notre Dame appeared...
...Bess Myerson, 64, her lover Carl Capasso, 43, and former State Judge Hortense Gabel, who once presided over Capasso's divorce case. Myerson, formerly New York City cultural-affairs commissioner, is accused of putting Gabel's daughter Sukhreet on the public payroll in order to get Gabel to lower Capasso's alimony payments. Many New Yorkers seem less offended by Myerson's alleged misdeeds than by the behavior of Sukhreet, 39, who cheerfully testified for eight days against her 75-year-old mother. "This is what she wanted her whole life, to be an actress. She doesn't care...
This year's Broadway season has got off to a sluggish start. That may help explain why the best theater in New York City last week was not along the Great White Way but on Centre Street, the stretch of lower Manhattan where the city, state and federal courthouses are clustered. Three legal proceedings under way there have drawn SRO crowds. One stars the 1945 Miss America, Bess Myerson, though she has been upstaged by the gabby daughter of a local judge, testifying for the prosecution. The second, unfolding as a sordid tragedy, centers on Joel Steinberg, a disbarred attorney...
After 26 years of one-party rule, new political groups have been forming at an astonishing rate: as of last week, more than 100 were registered. Volunteers compile membership lists, sell buttons and recruit organizers, even though the government harasses and sometimes detains lower-level party workers. The most prominent party, the National League for Democracy, which claims a membership of 450,000, is a coalition of convenience for three of the best-known opposition figures: former Generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and the highly popular Aung San Suu Kyi, the British-educated daughter of independence hero Aung...