Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debra Winger, Amy Irving, Rosanna Arquette: moviemakers should be begging to ! snare these actresses for fat and sassy leading roles. No such luck. Irving has for a dozen years commuted easily between stage (Amadeus, The Road to Mecca) and screen (Carrie, Yentl), but movies have rarely caught her witchy allure. Arquette seemed a cinch for stardom after Desperately Seeking Susan, but her elfin sensuality has proved too weird for mainstream fare. As for the wondrous Winger, she anchored three big hits of the early '80s. But after Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, her career...
...Serious golfer" is a superfluity, since there are no frivolous ones. Even the most heartbreaking hacker is expected, indeed required, to hand his soul over in significant measure to the game. In return, he is issued a sackful of allegories and a lot of little road maps pointing to the unfairness, or at least the arbitrariness, of life. Ostensibly, a number of tangibles go with it as well...
...nicknames of the landmarks that dot the holy land are as familiar as the wind to golfers: the Swilken Burn, the Principal's Nose, the Beardies, the Coffins, Hell Bunker, the Road Hole, Granny Clarke's Wynd, the Valley of Sin. An elderly caddie named Alex, who wears a checkered cap but otherwise has the grace not to be too picturesque, checks them off as you go. Every calamity has its accompanying parable: "This bunker you're buried in is the Bob Jones bunker. Unable to escape it, he stormed off the property and pledged never to return. Of course...
...happens the same way," says a Paris insurance clerk. "You have types who load their whole family into a small car and try to drive all night, until they fall asleep. You can look at the map and know exactly where they are going to run off the road. It's always the same place...
Statistics vary, but Yugoslavia (12 deaths per 10,000 vehicles per year) and Portugal (11 deaths) appear to head the grim list of annihilation on Europe's roads. The U.S. rate: 2.6 per 10,000 vehicles. Italy reduced the limit after a dire weekend last month, when road fatalities totaled 95. According to a poll by the daily Corriere della Sera of Milan, two-thirds of Italians favor the speed cutbacks...