Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never inclined to shun controversy, New York City Mayor Ed Koch last week offered solace and a solution to millions of pedestrians who cannot pass by a panhandler without feeling guilty. Koch's advice: donate to a charity instead. Most street beggars, in the mayor's view, are "mentally disturbed or it's a scam." Many "just don't want to work for a living" and spend the take from passersby on "booze and drugs." Koch said he will lead an advertising campaign to encourage gifts to volunteer agencies and to tell panhandlers where they can find help. Leaders...
...Olympians are made of stronger, not necessarily better, clay. At the same Olympic parade, such as Montreal's in 1976, the likes of the glorious Shun Fujimoto and the notorious Boris Onischenko can march into the sunlight together. The Soviet army's Major Onischenko came forever to be known as Disonischenko after the fencing segment of the modern pentathlon, when a battery was discovered in his nose cone. Like a burp at a banquet, Boris' epee went off by itself and beeped a phantom touche. The major was briskly spirited away to the U.S.S.R...
Hoffman gets the blend of hope and despair just right. She also conveys the social dimensions of childhood AIDS. The Farrells become pariahs: Amanda's friends and teammates shun her at their parents' insistence; her little brother Charlie gets cold-shouldered by his best friend; and her mother Polly gives up her free-lance photography business. On the up side, her father Ivan becomes friends with a terminally ill homosexual who is manning an AIDS hotline. Amanda's status as a potential gymnastic champion is more than a gimmick; it provides a standard by which her physical deterioration and emotional...
Even those seniors who did not shun investment banking say they covered their career bases this year. Many applied for jobs outside the field of investment banking just in case they did not fare well on Wall Street...
...that, as a Dane, he brings a European view to his work. "To me America is the most eclectic country in the world," he says. He carried his quest for variety into his choice of outside choreographers: two of them -- Paul Taylor and Lar Lubovitch -- are modernists who shun pointe work. Although she has choreographed some ballet, Laura Dean is a modernist -- or post-modernist. Martins' decision is controversial; N.Y.C.B. dancers can dance decently barefoot, but why not display them in what they do best? There are some much noted omissions from the roster, including such innovators as Twyla Tharp...