Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lafester's chances of making the N.B.A. are slim. Last year he dropped out of the C.B.A. after fracturing his foot two days before the season began. For the moment he is back in the league, but considering playing overseas. As with many student athletes, there are questions about just how much of an education Lafester Rhodes got in five years at Iowa State. His former C.B.A. coach Art Ross said Lafester struggled to fill out the team's simple application forms. Ross was later told by Iowa State's coach Orr that Lafester "couldn't read past a sixth...
...respond with some name the general public would never recognize. To the obsessive fan, the big story is rarely the arrival of a new Elmore Leonard or Ed McBain or Dick Francis -- although, as it happens, each of those established commercial writers has a new book out at the moment, all of middling quality. The main event is more likely to be, say, a new Simon Brett or Stuart M. Kaminsky, a new Jonathan Valin or Michael Allegretto. These less heralded figures often produce a prose more intense and flavorful, a sense of scene more convincing and a story more...
...that he had won a valuable prize. The St. Paul retiree would receive a new car, a two-week vacation in Hawaii, an imported French fur coat, a combination television-VCR, or $3,000 in cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later, Searles recalls, "my wife took one look at it and was absolutely disgusted. It was imported all right...
...told, the Federal Trade Commission estimates, con artists working the phones got away with at least $1 billion last year. Other fraud experts put the total as high as $10 billion. Legislators and law-enforcement agencies have stepped up their efforts to disconnect the crooks, but at the moment they are operating almost with impunity. Says William Sullivan, chief of the Illinois attorney general's consumer-protection division: "Lawyers, doctors, policemen -- every spectrum of society is being taken...
...into a borrowed shirt and tie, then whisked off to a Houston studio to appear on Nightline, the first of a slam-bang round of television appearances. Awkward at first, Adams quickly seemed as comfortable as Tom Hanks discussing his latest movie on Johnny Carson's couch. For the moment, prying reporters have become as ever present as guards. On the plane to Ohio, flight attendants passed food trays bucket-brigade style over the backs of cameramen crouched in the aisles...