Word: pert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first week's operatic offerings was the Figaro-tender, witty, effortlessly buoyant. The spectacle of servants outwitting their masters, so inflammatory in Mozart's day, was given charm and point by Baritone Walter Berry, as a rather phlegmatic Figaro, and Soprano Lucia Popp, as his pert fiancee. Baritone Hans Helm and especially Soprano Gundula Janowitz, as the count and countess, played along with aristocratic good grace...
...sentimental gaze of Capra or Hawks. A scene in the bar of a flashy Melbourne hotel harks back to Casablanca, for example. Len Maguire, with his new girl Amy on his arm, meets his brother Frank (Amy's old flame) after years of separation. Frank's brash charm, his pert, silly American secretary, conversation laced with double entendres and meaningful glances, and even a black piano player crooning "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"--it's all so stylishly orchestrated by Noyce that you're sure you've seen it before...
Here is yet another silly Hollywood soap opera about a damaged heroine. In this variation on the theme, pert young Nancy (Kathleen Quinlan) goes through the windshield of a car headfirst on her way to marry earnest young Michael (Stephen Collins). The prognosis is not good. Nancy requires 90 stitches, and, as her doctor points out, "there's not an awful lot left under those stitches." Is there a plastic surgeon in the house...
...agencies did not open the funding spigot for it until the 1970s, when the return of many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial thalamus, an area of the brain responsible...
...Will you perform my wedding ceremony?" inquired pert Vittoria lanni, 22, daughter of a Rome street sweeper. The quick reply: Yes. But it was no humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this...