Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead-off batter is Brandon Tartikoff, a sharp-fielding spray hitter in his sixth season as president of NBC Entertainment and third baseman on the company softball team. As Tartikoff steps to the plate against the Warner Bros. squad, a giant radio in the bleachers begins to blast out the driving theme song from Miami Vice. Inspired, Tartikoff slaps a double, leading NBC to a four-run inning. The team's "music manager" puckishly announces that all who have not hit safely must henceforth bat to the somewhat less blood- quickening theme from Punky Brewster...
...Harvard junior varsity heavyweight crew was not as lucky. The j.v. boat was beaten Saturday in Henley's second most important race for eights, the Ladies Challenge Plate, losing in the quarterfinals by a half-length to a formidable Irish crew, Garda Siochana...
Leander, a local English crew that beat Princeton's lightweight eight in the Ladies Plate semifinals, went on to down Garda Siochana in that event's finals...
They had paid $1,000 a plate to attend the dinner (some of the less desirable seats went for $500), and they were enjoying every minute of it. They had come to see the President; Stallone and the rest of the supporting cast were gravy. The gold-embossed programs, Veal Medaillons Montecito, and "Fresh Berries Sarah Bernhardt" were immaterial...
...there were any lingering doubts about the deftness of the new leader of the Soviet Union, his performance in the interview with TIME should lay them to rest. He displayed bravura rather than boiler plate, and his performance was rich in the raw material of Kremlinology. Soviet-affairs experts all over the world will devote much of this week to a painstaking analysis of Mikhail Gorbachev's comments. They will be looking for insights into his personality and Delphic hints about the policies he intends to pursue...