Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extended his crusade to include the ever industrious "squeegees," or windshield wipers, who swarm around cars when they stop at lights or intersections, often slopping dirty water on the window. "If you don't give them a quarter, they smack your windshield," said Koch on a radio talk show. "And in one case the windshield cracked. It's outrageous! It's threatening...
...Navy placed great weight on the detection of a so-called Mode II IFF (identification, friend or foe) signal from the approaching aircraft that identified it as an F-14 Tomcat jet fighter. Although crew members on the Vincennes CIC claimed to have seen this military signal, tape recordings show only a Mode III code, which is used by both civilian and military aircraft...
...Rimini, on the Adriatic, annually crowns Miss Golden Bottom, while Loano, on the Italian Riviera, chooses Miss Fantastic Breasts. In Agropoli, 60 miles south of Naples, a determined tourism director aims to convert his town of 15,000 into the "new capital of transgression." Promotional schemes include variety shows with bare-breasted show girls...
Dukakis' itinerary and his choice of a Texan as running mate show that his strategists have no respect for what is known as the "electoral lock." That concept, based on voting patterns of the previous generation, posits that Republican candidates start with a huge advantage in reaching the magic number of 270 electoral votes. In the past five elections, 23 states, with a total of 202 electoral votes, have gone solidly Republican. Except in Jimmy Carter's narrow victory in 1976, the South and the West were the most loyal Republican regions...
When he recovered, the voice of more than 400 animated characters resumed a career that had made him celebrated as the comic foil of Groucho Marx, George Burns and, most memorably, Jack Benny. It was for the Benny show that he regularly played a polar bear, an antique car, a "Union Depot train caller" ("Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc . . . amonga!"), a parrot, a Mexican ("What's your name?" "Sy." "Sy?" "Si"), and the choleric Professor LeBlanc, Jack's violin teacher: "Meester Be-nee, could I have some water, please?" "Water? Yes. There's some in the cooler down the hall." "That...