Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think of time as a raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but it was in the instant some photographer pointed his lens at an event other people wanted to see. Since then, photojournalism has remained the best way of freeze-drying history for further inspection...
...movie. "I have something better than James Bond," Lucas replied, and sketched the scenario for Raiders. The Indy series bears traces of the Bond films in its superhero with an edge of surliness, its globe-girdling itineraries, its villains purring megalomania, its neat blend of macho cynicism and schoolboy pluck. But The Last Crusade has something better than James Bond. It has Sean Connery...
Retailers are scrambling to pluck some gold from the green. Sales from K mart's spruced-up golf line this year will top those for either tennis or exercise equipment. Wilson Sporting Goods' golf-clothing sales have more than doubled since 1985, to $11 million annually. In California off-course golf shops like the Roger Dunn franchise seem to be sprouting on every corner. Says Dennis Davenport, executive director of the Chicago District Golf Association: "Anyone in the industry who is not doing well is doing something wrong...
...early '60s rock 'n' roll. Taking a cue from Asquith's Pygmalion, the film casts Ward (John Hurt) as an aristocratic makeover artist, discovering Keeler (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) in the fetid anonymity of a Soho strip club and turning her into a star of the jet-set slumming circuit. Pluck your eyebrows, Christine. Wet your lips. Come over and say hi to Jack Profumo...
...fundamental desire of Americans to own their own property, by luck or by pluck, has inspired some creative ways to reclaim the dream. In fact, the rapid increase in prices has prompted many potential buyers to hasten their search, since waiting would put them farther behind. In their zeal to raise down payments, young buyers are raiding their retirement accounts -- and duly paying the penalties -- or ceding part of the equity in their homes to outside investors. Others are turning for help to state-financed programs and innovative private and nonprofit housing developers...