Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the police officer told us the robbery had been committed by two Blacks, he called on his walkie-talkie for a description of the suspects. Another police car pulled up, with its red light whirling; these bright lights exposed our identities...
...Cornell baseball field in Ithaca, N.Y., the Harvard baseball team bounced out of the EIBL cellar with a sweep over the Big Red. The next day, the Crimson swept the Tigers in Princeton. Harvard had turned its mediocre season around...
Perspective usually comes in time. Someday Boston Red Sox fans will forgive Bill Buckner for letting a ground ball slip through his legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series...
...rates high. White House and congressional leaders merely ducked the issue last month in a sleight-of-hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley, a senior economist at the Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert. "Cutting the budget deficit is the proper tool. But it is late...
...giving it, for the first time, the elaborate scenery with backdrops, revolving screens and sliding flats that had been developed in Italy. The confidence of his fantasies was striking, and even a costume sketch like the "fiery spirit," a torchbearer for one of his court masques, shakes its red plumage with Italianate brio. And though his inventiveness is best seen in the stone and brick of his finished buildings, one marvels at its evidence in the drawings -- the variations he would run, for instance, on designs for ceremonial doorways, now grave and severe, now bursting with free uses for acquired...