Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are other figures with whom she shows a sort of didactic impatience. Her pan of Twyla Tharp's Broadway effort, When We Were Very Young, is clearly done regretfully, but the conclusion is inevitable: the show, she says, "isn't a musical, it isn't a dansical. Like so many shows that are being produced today, it's a booksical...
...three days, sporadic thunderstorms had provided only momentary relief from the 90° heat oppressing residents of New Orleans. As Pan American Pilot Kenneth McCullers taxied his 153-ft-long Boeing 727 into position for takeoff at New Orleans International Airport, a column of thunderclouds towered 35,000 ft. into the air. A drenching rain was punctuated by 20-m.p.h. gusts and streaks of lightning. Through the haze, McCullers could see only two miles ahead...
...left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...
Pablo Emilio Madero, candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), came in second with 14% of the vote, a result that had also been expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party...
Harvard's argument against tendering bright young stars is usually the fear that such hot-shots might prove flashes in the pan and not live up to their promise. But it's equally possible that well-established professors will burn out--will fast become crotchety and behind the times...