Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Harvard football team captured the Ivy League title against Yale in The Game last year, you might have lost all sensation in your toes that afternoon, but you were there.
Some designers, however, have a different recollection. While agreeing that Mrs. Reagan has purchased many items, they say she has definitely borrowed others and has not returned all of them. Los Angeles designer David Hayes said Mrs. Reagan has borrowed 60 to 80 expensive, made-to-order outfits from him...
The customary Olympic isms -- commercialism and jingoism -- were common colds next to the pestilence of cynicism, sexism and racism spread by the mere fact of anabolic steroids and by a rampant suspicion that Johnson's miscalculation was not in usage but in dosage. The Jamaican-born Canadian with fast feet...
Politicians are suckers for the Schwab's drugstore myth. So when George Bush plucked Dan Quayle from obscurity and made him his running mate, he no doubt thought he had discovered a raw young talent who could be molded into a Lana Turner sensation, a blue-eyed Everyboy who could...
But the odd-duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined...