Word: racier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which American League managers and players discussed the Yankees' chances of whining a fourth straight league pennant. HBO will also spend $13 million on original programming this year. Sample: National Lampoon Presents Disco Beaver from Outer Space, a satirical revue that was shown in February and included skits racier than any seen on regular TV. One was The Breast Game, starring Lynn Redgrave in a parody of TV game shows. An interview show called Upclose went on the air last October; first guests included Woody Allen and John Travolta...
...first four U.S. Government employees (nobody will say what agency they work for) "graduated" from the private Academy of Defensive Driving, joining previous trainees from Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico and the Philippines. In a week of schooling they were taught a number of evasive tactics that had been developed, in racier days, by whisky runners and bank heisters. The curriculum consisted of running a roadblock and executing a "bootleg turn," an intricate maneuver of locking on the emergency brake while spinning the steering wheel to excecute a 180° turn within a two-lane road. The bootleg is not recommended...
...film. His abilities of synthesis are limited to an intellectual spectrum that, for all its wit and sometime fierceness, verges on the academic; its hard not to feel that this comes from a refusal to confront reality head-on. Though he does branch out now and then into slightly racier stuff (his festival reports and film journalism are nice and punchy), only the timeless qualities of a work's form and logic, and eternal themes of Life and Love, come to him easily. He's critic who begs the question of relevance, and he doesn't seem apt to change...
That problem lately has been aggravated for several reasons. First, the airlines are prisoners of modern technology and old-fashioned competition. Whenever a manufacturer produces a bigger or racier plane, the chiefs of some leading airlines figure that they must have it, and then all other lines feel obliged to follow. The debut last year of the 356-passenger 747 jumbo jet left the lines with many more seats than they could fill. The lines added so many 747s in the last year that the number of seats on North Atlantic flights soared by 18%, to as many...