Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plenty also prevails in the bakeries selling moon cakes, a delicacy favored during the autumn harvest-moon festival. Shoppers line up for these heavy round pastries, embossed with good-luck symbols and filled with candied fruits or spiced meats, much like mincemeat...
Anderson admitted that in 1983 and 1984 he evaded paying taxes on more than $200,000 in income, including $80,000 that he received as a lobbyist for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church International. The former Treasury Secretary also conceded that from 1983 to 1985 he was a representative of a British West Indies-based bank that was never registered with authorities. During that time the bank invested in fraudulent projects that cost depositors at least $4 million. Some depositors were innocent victims, prosecutors said, while others were illegally trying to conceal their income. In a separate...
...they aim for bargain exposure to specific audiences. A Room with a View, for example, based on the E.M. Forster novel, was screened last year for a Chicago convention of English teachers, who were encouraged to use the film as a study aid for their students. Waiting for the Moon, a new film about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas starring Linda Hunt, will be screened for feminist groups and advertised in gay newspapers...
...stroll down a supermarket aisle would surely beguile George Crum, the chef at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who in 1853 is said to have devised "Saratoga chips" to placate a cantankerous customer who complained that the fried potatoes were too thick. But if Crum were to taste chocolate-coated chips, a salt-sweet, cloying aberration priced from $6 to $18 per lb. (the latter from Yuppie Gourmet in Racine, Wis.), he might be sorry he started the whole thing. As a good chef, he would be the first to recognize that even the best idea...
...observations would have been even more detailed and valuable had they been made with a telescope. Unfortunately, the star's timing was off. The supernova lighted the night skies just a scant five years before Galileo made the first documented telescopic scan of the heavens, discovering mountains on the moon and spots...