Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That ship and a sister ship, the Atocha, both carrying New World treasure to Spain, sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 1622. "It's a good feeling to finally be able to distribute this stuff. It justifies the faith people had in me," said Mel Fisher, founder of Treasure Salvors. It was an uncharacteristic understatement from the usually hyperbolic Fisher, 60, an incorrigible optimist who for years was regarded along the Florida Keys as at best a dreamer and at worst an unscrupulous hustler. Twenty years ago, Fisher and his indomitable wife Dolores, 46, began...
...said to Mel, 'Hey, you're doing it all wrong,' " recalls Burke. He proposed organizing the tax-shelter partnerships for each year's work on every salvage site, loosely fashioned after oil-exploration tax shelters. So successful was Burke in attracting investors in 1980 and 1981 that his firm, Underbill Associates, is now trying to register a $12 million tax shelter with the Securities and Exchange Commission so that it can be sold publicly. That money would go toward six new expeditions Fisher has in mind, as well as for further exploring at the sites...
Still the overall effect-- reminiscent of the Python T V series is far livelier than similarly constructed spoofs like Mel Brooks' History of the World. Part I or Woody Allen's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask And of course, at the end Monty Python reveals the long awaited answer to the meaning of life...
...short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This is work wear, not street clothing, but Melle Mel knows what message they are putting across. "It gives you a more dominant, primitive look. We dress like this because in a lot of ways people expect us to. The whole principle in rapping...
...confusing from the start. When Guy Hamilton, a rough, unschooled foreign correspondent from Australia, arrives in Jakarta to make himself a name, it looks like we're in for a simple adventure romance. Having decided to put on some decent clothes since his appearance last summer in "Road Warrior," Mel Gibson looks and plays perfectly the stereotypical cub reporter--cheeky, brash, but oh so earnest in his desire to really know Javanese ways...