Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simplists see Japan as a society that is vivid, vibrant and depthless. The Japanese, say the simplists, are a skitteringly nervous, suggestible and insecure people, quick (too quick) to change, given to adopting fads from abroad and Japanizing them. A facile people, living in the present and the immediate future, a sharp trading race. The truth, almost surely, is an amalgamation of the two perceptions. That is only fitting. Japan is a masterpiece of contradictions, of East and West, of exquisite politesse and oafish rudeness, of a certain lacquered arrogance combined with a strange insecurity in the presence of things...
...disappointing encounter, I reasoned that there are two types of women who call themselves feminists: the ecumenical type, who believes in freedom of expression and the right of each woman to find dignity and fulfillment in whichever path she chooses; and the more prevalent knee-jerk feminist who is quick to condemn any woman who looks and lives differently from herself, and who is unwilling to make an effort to recognize the person behind the makeup and hairdo. This type of feminist has a close-minded and superficial approach which can border at times on censorship or, even worse, cattiness...
...debt-ridden and desperate KROQ in Pasadena, Calif., broke the bland playlist. Its new format: then unknown bands like Britain's Duran Duran and the rockabilly Stray Cats (both now megagroups). The reversal was quick. When Berlin's Pleasure Victim played on the station, a surprising 25,000 copies were sold locally. Now KROQ is the No. 1 rock station in the large Los Angeles radio market. Says then Program Director Rick Carroll, who now advises ten other stations on strategy: "I sensed that there was a big audience out there looking for something of their own. Music...
...praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also has a reputation for booze (vodka martinis, shaken not stirred), fast women and a quick trigger-not precisely dear-to-the-heartland pulpit pleasers. White House embarrassment did not develop, however, until a Washington, B.C., TV station, which had picked up the program, began using the President's words for 30-second promo spots. The program went on as scheduled, but before...
DIED. Joe Delaney, 24, star halfback of the Kansas City Chiefs; of drowning when he dived into a pond to rescue two floundering boys; in Monroe, La. Smallish for a pro football running back (5 ft. 10 in., 184 Ibs.) but remarkably quick and agile, Delaney rushed for a team record of 1,121 yds. and caught 22 passes as a 1981 rookie. The father of three children, one a newborn baby, he first warned the youngsters not to swim in a construction site's 20-ft.-deep water hole, plunged in after them and, although he knew...