Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, suddenly, right before everybody's eyes, Parents transforms himself from storyteller into bird. He sinks his neck into his shoulders...
...your shoulders. There's the double biceps, that classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your hands a little below your naval, force your chest and neck out, strain until every vein looks like a pencil and your face looks like it's not going to last very...much...longer, and that's the most muscular...
...make the rescue, because the Leader of the Free World must appear by then at the Hartford Summit Conference (Hartlord!? Yeah, and the next summer Olympics are going to be in Elizabeth, New Jersey). Just to keep the Snake's attention, the cops have planted a device in his neck that will kill him in 24 hours if he doesn't return with the President. Incidentally, there will be a nuclear holocaust if the President doesn't show at Hartford...
Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners is the newest cousin of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, the classic guide to British bluebloods, which dates back to 1802. The 400-page manual meanders from behavior in the presence of royalty (curtsying is no longer necessary-bowing from the neck will do) to homey advice on how to handle drunks or carve a chicken. It is all right now to turn your fork over and scoop peas up with the aid of a knife, notes the book, but only with elbows tight to the sides so the person alongside will...
During his campaign for the White House, Ronald Reagan described certain provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1970 as an albatross around the neck of U.S. industry and an impediment to economic growth. He cheerfully pledged to ease the regulation of private industry. Now the President seems about to keep that campaign promise-and set the stage for a full-scale environmental battle...