Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learn a five-step dance routine, or "combination," and execute it for the four men huddled in orchestra seats a few yards away. Those sitting in judgment are the movie's producers, Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, Broadway veterans whose movie version of Cabaret won eight Oscars; Director Sir Richard Attenborough, whose last film, Gandhi, also won eight Oscars; and Choreographer Jeffrey Hornaday, 27, a former dancer who staged the movement in Flashdance. Michael Bennett, who conceived Chorus Line and who was to transform it for the screen, now has no part in making the film...
...flustered on-camera response from Reagan. Andrea Mitchell, NBC: "Can you say to those parents, now that you've withdrawn the Marines to the ships, why more than 260 young men died there?" Bill Plante, CBS, frequently cites an unnamed "those" as authority for his questions: "Well, sir, what's your response to those who suggest that you don't spend enough time at the job of being President?" On the nightly TV news, however, Reagan is able to score unopposed by reading out some simplified snippet, knowing this is as much as the networks want...
...that maintains order on the island. Yet behind the Spice Island's extravagant gratitude loom problems for the U.S. To justify its "rescue mission" internationally, Washington must show that it can restore democracy to the island, then withdraw its troops before the good will wears thin. Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon is Grenada's largely ceremonial leader, but the island has been run since mid-November by a nine-man advisory council made up of technocrats and civil servants...
...holding elections within a year. But Grenada's self-confidence has been so shattered by its recent political turbulence that many citizens seem quite content to postpone elections indefinitely. Their fears have been fanned by the ominous reappearance of the island's most distinguished and distrusted politician, Sir Eric Gairy, 61. Grenada's first post-independence Prune Minister, Gairy ruled the island from 1974 until the bloodless coup staged by Maurice Bishop and his Marxist-oriented New Jewel Movement five years later. During that time, Sir Eric won dubious international fame by claiming that he had been...
...genre of the patter song, Sir Noël had no peer. Because he was a performer first, he made certain that his most complex lyrics could be delivered with ease (upon hearing Coward do Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Porter said that it was the first time he had ever heard a song delivered in one breath). Coward's broken rhythms uncannily reflect modern speech, and his rhymes are unpredictable ("The police had to send a squad car/ When Daddy got fried on vodka"). And many of his topics have actually grown more pertinent with age: "Mother requires...