Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neurotic families are much more interesting than normal ones--at least on stage. A good mix of Oedipal tangles, money, repressed anger, dark power plays, and a pinch or two of insanity ought to guarantee an enthralling evening, right? After all, the recipe worked for Oedipus and Hamlet...
...Angeles scrambled back to tie the game in the ninth inning on Lee Lacy's pinch-hit single, the blow that scored Dusty Baker and sent the tilt into extra frames...
Many a student-and many a paying parent-is outraged over the housing pinch. "It's impossible to study here," complains Dan Rossberger, a Cornell freshman living in a study lounge with four others. Meanwhile 200 Boston University students, assigned to three decrepit buildings hastily leased by the school, say they must try to study while cockroaches dart across their feet, workmen fix plaster above their heads and prostitutes ply their trade near...
...anatomy is singled out for celebration from one season to the next, legs are mostly left to hoof it. Beautiful Legs are particularly badly treated in winter, when they are either stuffed into pants and rendered unviewable or left like Dickensian waifs to battle wind-chill factor through a pinch of pantyhose. When Beautiful Legs complain about this scurvy treatment, they are curtly told by designers to go take a walk...
Morrison takes a critical look at many aspects of the Times, but came away impressed by the paper's completeness and ubiquity. Says Morrison with a pinch of hyperbole: "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no New York Times reporter there to record it, the tree never fell. But then there are so many Times reporters around the world that hardly a tree falls that isn't recorded...