Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor Billy Martin, who encourages brawls on the field and participates in them when as a leader he should be stopping them, the man who ambles through life with the finesse of a bull looking for the nearest red cape...
Terres' monumental effort will be in spiring poets, librarians, astronauts and lovers long after the work's scientific value is exhausted and serious birders have moved on with notebooks and binoculars to newer texts. The Encyclopedia is literature rather than guide. Terres' observations of our nearest wild-animal neigh bors offer an anthropomorphic comfort, and make the mysteries of Carl Sagan's black holes in other galaxies seem remote indeed...
...tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once have been intended as a send-up of Jerry...
...moon had the nation shown such enthusiastic interest in space. Teachers interrupted classes so youngsters could see the landing. Work in offices and factories virtually ceased. Hearing that Columbia was about to touch down, a fitter in a Manhattan men's shop dashed off to the nearest TV set, leaving a customer standing before a mirror all pinned up in an unfinished suit. The Atlanta Constitution's resident cartoonist, Baldy, showed a beaming Uncle Sam emerging out of the shuttle with his arms raised high like a victorious boxer's. Though some editorial writers expressed discomfort about...
...dollar, one-hour train ride from Princeton, New Jersey, to either Philadelphia or New York City. The nearest thing to a girl's college for miles around is the public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from the academic life, therefore, the average Princeton man invariably turns to his club. There he not only takes all his meals, but forms friendships, watches television, plays squash or bridge or Ping-Pong, drinks, parties, holds bull sessions, and even studies. Unless he's on a varsity team, its intramural program is his only...