Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheme (don't ask how or why); the music-video montages of the good life in Beverly Hills alternating with sudden descents into motiveless and entirely humorless violence; the none-too-subtle maneuverings to bring Murphy into contact with variously dim figures who can be run over by his motor mouth; the police colleague-foils, who, besides Reinhold, include John Ashton and Ronny Cox and whose chief function is to shake their heads bemusedly over Murphy's improvisational nerve and witty, if occasionally obscene, sayings...
Wilbur won the toss and went first: "He lay down on the lower wing with his hips in the padded wingwarping cradle, while Orville made a last-minute adjustment to the motor. When everything was ready, Wilbur tried to release the rope fastening the machine to the rail, but the thrust of the propellers was so great he could not get it loose and two of the men had to forcibly push the Flyer backward a few inches until the rope slipped free. Orville ran beside the machine, balancing it with one hand. In the other hand he held...
...founder's 40 or so living descendants, about a dozen work at Hearst, but most of them hold relatively minor jobs. John Hearst Jr. is an editor of Motor Boating & Sailing, while Anne is an editor at Town & Country. The Examiner's Will Hearst, one of the company's stars, is considered a candidate to run the company, but he denies that ambition and praises Bennack. "Having a Hearst in charge could make things more divisive within the family," he says...
DIED. Richard Ellmann, 69, scholarly author of James Joyce, the definitive biography of the Irish novelist, and the first American to become a professor of English literature at Oxford University; of pneumonia brought on by a motor-neuron ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; in Oxford, England...
...from Father Ted to Father Ed: Edward ("Monk") Malloy, 46, a former Notre Dame basketball player who has been an associate professor of theology and associate provost. At that point, Hesburgh and fellow Retiree Joyce will take off for a vacation tour of the West in a 26-ft. motor home equipped with auxiliary mopeds. The two priests have been warming up for the journey by buzzing around campus on the red bikes, wearing red helmets and black jackets...