Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's words to a press aide-hostile to us." Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them when they're up." He recently defended Bert Lance when he was down. Safire used to write speeches for Richard Nixon, but the fact that Nixon has been lately taken up by liberals for his advocacy of detente, Safire says, provoked a column calling Nixon "soft on Communism...
...could have been mailed in. "My strategy will be the same as always," he announced beforehand, "to pop a very big jump early and make everyone chase after me. If I feel 'on' after my first jump, I might take a second." For a personal Olympic motto he chose: "A gold medal is first. The world record is last." If his priorities did not earn admiration, there was at least irony in the boos. Criticized by some for grandstanding too smoothly in order to build his public image, he was being ragged now for his insufficient pursuit...
...keeping with the Olympic motto, the American teams moved faster, leaped higher and drove stronger than anyone else. They also had the deeper benches: in the women's final, all twelve U.S. players scored at least two points; in the men's eight games, five different players took turns being top scorer, and eight started at least once. Said Forward Michael Jordan: "We can put any five we have out there and get the job done...
When 47-year-old Discus Thrower Al Oerter wrecked his calf three weeks ago and abandoned his quest for a fifth gold-medal Games, sentiment took a tough loss. But it rebounded marvelously in the person of Hammer Thrower Burke, 44, the singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain...
...SoHo. So there," the long-time motto of many Quad residents, was finally laid to rest this year, when South House was renamed Cabot House...