Word: parking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Summer of '49 is much enhanced by the author's ruminations about the era. He captures both the glamour and the quaintness of the late '40s, when the corner bar, the movie palace and the ball park were the major entertainment centers. The new age of expansion clubs and megasalaries was coming on fast. Though TV was in the wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored...
Pope John Paul II signed one once after an outdoor Mass in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Like Whitey Ford, who writes "Ed Ford" to conserve energy, the Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances...
...really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled chests and woven tree bark around their ankles. The 50-man long boats are racing past mist-wreathed rain-forest mountains, and the muddy park is taken over by cricket. But not the game of white-flannel elegance as it is played at the Marylebone Cricket Club in London. Oh, no! This is tropical, Technicolor kirikiti -- buxom girls in lemon yellow shirts and sky blue skirts thwacking around a homemade rubber ball with a three...
Then there are the tourists. "The pyramids," laments Hawass, "are the only monuments in the world where you can drive up and park your car. Even in Disneyland you have to park a mile away." Last year alone 1,969,493 visitors came to look at -- and touch and breathe on -- Egypt's treasures. Just six people breathing inside a tomb for an hour can raise the humidity by 5 percentage points. And higher humidity provides a hospitable environment for bacteria, algae and fungi that grow on paintings. Sighs Hassan: "Three thousand people a day visit King Tut's tomb...
...Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Tam Martinides Gray, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...