Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wally Joyner sprang onto the American League scene last year, posting several outstanding rookie numbers by the All-Star break. Between banging out singles and covering the bag on defense, Joyner spent a good deal of his 1986 seasons on first base. For the batter, a hit represents only one of eight ways to reach first. Name the other seven...
Hoosiers is a hard term to define, though a current movie of that name picks at the synonyms of Indiana, basketball and Knight. The opening scene of rural roads, buckets and barns is faithful to Knight's picture of the place. Driving along, he likes to count the hoops. His best player, Guard Steve Alford of New Castle, learned to count on a scoreboard. Ever since Alford was a high school "Mr. Basketball," the Midwestern equivalent of a peerage, even his regimen on the foul line has been as famous in Indiana as the frost. (Touch your socks, your shorts...
...Japanese trade difficulties, not to mention relations between the two countries in general, may become slightly frostier after the Prime Minister leaves the scene. Observes Larry Niksch, an Asian affairs specialist at the Congressional Research Service: "Nakasone and Reagan have been the glue that has kept the relation close. Below them there is a good deal of animosity on both sides. That could cause serious damage later...
...American Scene...
When Gray describes the destruction of 1975, the audience can practically see the jungle villages because sounds of crickets and helicopters fill the background, while green lights and skewed camera angles make Gray appear to be in the scene he is talking about. Yet when he leaves his story to stare hauntingly into the camera and announce that is "evil" happened to America, the audience is snapped violently back to the realization that Gray is telling the story, not acting...