Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached to him, and he quickly became a Senator, then a rebel candidate for President. Almost as quickly, he too was killed...
...poet of George Bush, trying to turn the inner impulses of the Vice President into words that soar. "Government is words," says Noonan. "Thoughts are reduced to paper for speeches which become policy. Poetry has everything to do with speeches -- cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep, a knowledge that words are magic, that words like children have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart...
...hasn't always been that way. In 1942 and 1944, Dartmouth played in national championship games. Even as recently as 1979, Penn went to the Final Four before falling to Magic Johnson and Michigan State. But now, according to league coaches, the Ivy League is unable to compete with the stronger conferences. Ivy teams are invited to play major teams which are looking for easy wins to pad their records...
COVER: Do you believe in magic? Disney' s Michael Eisner revives a kingdom...
...times bigger than the biggest rat." This was mild stuff compared with a 1967 parody that Mad Alumnus Wallace Wood drew for Realist magazine. In the cheerfully scabrous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Walt's creatures behaved exactly as barnyard and woodland denizens might. Beneath dollar-sign searchlights radiating from the Magic Kingdom's castle, Goofy had his way with Minnie, Dumbo the flying elephant dumped on Donald Duck, the Seven Dwarfs besmirched Snow White en masse and Tinker Bell performed a striptease for Peter Pan and Jiminy Cricket. Mickey slouched off to one side, shooting heroin...