Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Myriad details emerge: the skittering piccolo, singing out over the thundering trombones at the end of the Fantastique finale; the raw, plaintive solo of the cor anglais in the slow movement, forlornly wailing in response to the ominous, muffled strokes of the timpani; the four harps forming a powerful voice in the whirling waltz. Berlioz -- and such contemporaries as Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn and even early Wagner -- can, and should, never be heard the same way again...
There is in this a deplorable element that might be called adultification, in which a figure created for children is subjected to adult concerns, much as though Tom Sawyer or Alice in Wonderland were updated by being made to confront sexual problems. Yet despite the myriad changes in the legend, something strong and fundamental remains. DC Comics is delighted that its newest Superman has doubled sales, to 200,000, but that is a relatively paltry number compared with the millions who cherish an older image from their childhood...
...Pentagon for their executives' country-club fees and charged as much as $7,500 for a coffeepot used in aircraft. The principal remedy, lawmakers thought, would be to centralize all procurement authority in the hands of a single individual. Until then, such power had been spread among a myriad of departments. Said Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat: "We envisioned a czar who would kick trash cans and have rats jump...
...also careful to warn me of the other myriad dangers that apparently make daily survival there a tenuous proposition at best. Armies of red "fire ants" gleefully attack those unlucky enough to step on their hills; their bites could (in those with the proper allergies) cause Death, according to the newspaper article she cut out on the subject. The blazing sun causes blistering skin cancer of the most painful sort in those not properly protected with sunscreen...
...flying was nearing a frenzy, Madden reluctantly accepted CBS's second or third offer of a commentator's tryout and hesitantly began jumping through paper hoops in Miller Lite beer commercials. Nine years later, his network stipend is crowding $1 million a year, and the rewards from his myriad motor-oil and antihistamine accounts may be two or three times that. He has written two best-selling memoirs (Hey, Wait a Minute, I Wrote a Book! and One Knee Equals Two Feet; Villard Books), and is at work on a third. Over the next few weekends, as pro football...