Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmer's fields stay green, while all around them leaves turn the color of fire. Winter comes only when the stranger departs. Every year thereafter, the frosty windows bear a Delphic message, SEE YOU NEXT FALL. Van Allsburg the writer could use an interpreter. Van Allsburg the illustrator is luckier; his paintings have an eloquence of their...
...placed orders at $195 each for out-of-stock introductory kits of Glycel, a new line of skin-care products. In Las Vegas, caustic-tongued but delicate-skinned Comic Joan Rivers complained that the local Neiman-Marcus was out of Glycel supplies. In New York City, Maryanna Mangino was luckier; she managed to walk out of Saks Fifth Avenue with $300 worth of assorted Glycel lotions and potions. "I guess I'm hoping for something mysteriously new that just might work to get rid of wrinkles," said Mangino. "After all, who ever thought you could put a heart back into...
...Harvard's had some good teams in those years," Northeastern Coach Fern Flaman says. "Maybe the other teams have just been luckier...
...been released in Cyprus, "but it isn't something we want to talk about." Two days later, when he learned of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Landry Slade told reporters, "God help them all. I know what it's like." Professor Slade was, in fact, a good deal luckier than his colleague Thomas Sutherland, 54, dean of the American University's agriculture and food sciences faculty. Sutherland had been kidnaped earlier in the week as he was riding in a six-car convoy from Beirut airport to his campus home. He thus became the seventh American and the twelfth...
THOUGH THE Salkinds may not have realized it at the time, finding Reeve was a luckier break than getting the Newmans. Almost the perfect physical match for a Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made...