Word: shuttlecocked
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...Shuttlecock (works on so many levels...
...vacationed in the French Alps with his family in 1973. Suffering from a sprained ankle, he discovered a new game called "Pong" in the hotel bar, and was mesmerized by it. "Who or what controlled my opponent's movements? What were the rules governing the flight of that square shuttlecock?" The reader can really feel how important finding a niche was to him through the simple yet emotional description of this discovery...
...which the Guggenheim recently bought. But a great deal of late-American Modernism is just arbitrarily big. It's as though the larger spaces of Gehry's design caused the art to inflate by suction. Still, some very big pieces work very well here, notably Claes Oldenburg's soft shuttlecock drooping from a balcony of the atrium, and the curving steel sheets of Serra's 104-ft.-long Snake. It would be a tremendous pity if Bilbao ended up with a great building stuffed with heavy-metal, late-imperial American cultural landfill. What broad public is really interested in such...
...Congressmen in the state. In New York, John Dyson had ample money and mushy moderate ideas; he lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While in the House, Bailey had backed Reagan on some fiscal and social issues. Edgar, a staunch progressive, had the last word in debate -- and at the ballot box -- when he declared, "A real Democrat would have stood up to President Reagan and said no to those unfair tax policies...
...researcher, and soon developed a reputation as a brilliant thinker and long-term planner. In 1957 Volcker came to the attention of Chase Manhattan Bank's chief economist, John Wilson, who hired him away from the Fed, thereby starting the self-assured young banker on a 25-year shuttlecock career back and forth between Government service and the Chase...