Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is also the matter of his singular personality. Mahre went on: "I don't know an athlete in this village who actually likes the guy." Canadian Downhiller Todd Brooker said he did not like Johnson either, and that with his present style he could never win a demanding race like the Hahnenkamm. But he added, "You've got to give the guy credit. It's one thing to be so goddam sure of yourself and another to be absolutely right. He was definitely the best skier on the course today...
That one of the problems of governing today is the excessive partisanship of Republicans and Democrats seems not to have bothered the television impresarios, who appear determined to make the campaign the biggest Gong Show of this singular year. "Politics became fun," burbled Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales. "National fun on live TV . . . nearly as action-packed as The A-Team." Will the political handlers, consultants, producers and scriptwriters-a flourishing industry now in league with the media-turn this campaign into a litany of despair, with each candidate exaggerating America's problems in order to sell...
Reagan has abandoned any private coyness about his candidacy ("If I decide to run . .."). Returning from California last week, he spoke frankly with his advisers about the upcoming campaign for a second term. In a singular way he is exhilarated by the promise of political combat. It gets him out of Washington and into the fuselage of the majestic Air Force One, no little joy. "It sure beats TWA," says an aide...
...most flamboyant Doctor was No. 4, Tom Baker (1974 to 1981), whose halo of brown curls and 20-ft.-long scarf had a singular appeal for female fans...
Each inhabits his own singular combat zone. Yet a provocative phrase cropped up in news reports: "Not since the end of the war in Viet Nam. . ." Some of the analogies were impressionistic and wrong: the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean are not Indochina. But some of the bench marks were plain, blunt facts. Not since Viet Nam, until Beirut, had so many U.S. servicemen been killed in a single day. Not since then, until Grenada, had U.S. servicemen launched a combat operation of such size. Not since then, until a Navy A-6 was shot down over Lebanon...