Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avant- garde. It turns Pinky Lee, the '50s kids' show host, into a subject for performance art. At first Pee-wee was a coterie favorite of adults, but with his 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and his Saturday-morning TV show, Reubens has gained a huge peanut gallery. Even for those who found the Pee-wee persona grating, there was ingenuity in the movie's pop-art surrealism and the show's pop-up-book snazz of design...
...then three years ago by not voting during the 1980 and 1984 Presidential elections. There appeared, at the time, to be reasons. In 1980, Blacks did not vote for Jimmy Carter because he did not come through on his promises to Blacks. This was after voting for the peanut...
...felt nervous earlier in the day and, scared of getting an upset stomach, limited herself to a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. But as she glided up to the starting line for the 500-meter sprint at Calgary's Olympic Oval, American Speed Skater Bonnie Blair felt confident, even though minutes earlier her rival, the powerful East German skater Christa Rothenburger, had set a new world record of 39.12 sec. Blair glanced at the stands, where a score of rooting family members were clustered around heartening banners (GO, BONNIE, GO). Moments later, she burst away from the line...
Official suppliers, which paid $500,000 each for the designation, are profitably promoting their contribution. The athletes consequently are feasting on meats provided by Canada Safeway, eating bread baked by Weston Foods and spreading it with Skippy peanut butter or Hellmann's mayonnaise from Best Foods. They sleep on Simmons mattresses and stoke up on Crispy Crunch candy bars, made by a Weston subsidiary. Any photographs commissioned by O.C.O. will be shot with Canon cameras...
...foreign policy advisers. They begin to compromise and agree on matters they have very little experience or knowledge of, much like an unwary tourist in an Arab bazaar. This is particularly ominous for the United States, where the last four presidents have been a crook, a football player, a peanut farmer, and an actor. Thanks to television's role in American electoral politics, we can't expect our presidents to be experts on foreign affairs--but they're guaranteed to be both good-looking and charismatic...