Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Czech Ivan Lendl defeated the Swede Mats Wilander last week in the U.S. Open, the grand-slam tennis season closed without an American-born champion of any gender for the first time in 18 years. Excluding the aging Chris Evert, 32, no American-born woman active today has ever won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open or the Australian Open. In terms of the Davis Cup, the U.S. (a recent loser to Paraguay) has been reclassified a minor- league country, a zonal qualifier...
...club. "These people are in great shape and aware of their diet, yet their faces look older because of sun exposure," observes Dr. Stephen Kurtin, a New York City dermatologist. Michael, 46, a lean Manhattan executive typifies the trend. Over the past six months he has undergone a grand-slam rehab: eye lift, face-lift and collagen shots to plump out his facial wrinkles. "I had a body by Michelangelo and face by Goya," he says. "No matter how much exercise I did, the face didn't respond...
...part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy whose violent death revealed a troubled double existence. Folks who found the Bad video too tough may be soothed by next year's Smooth Criminal. This multimillion-dollar minifilm has slam-bang special effects supervised by Colin Chilvers, who worked on the first three Superman films...
...south of the school along Depot Street in Greenfield, Iowa (pop. 1,800 and dwindling), rusty screen doors would slam, assorted mongrels would bark melancholy farewells, bicycle chains would strain and rattle. The great morning migration was under way. Jack and Richard would roll out on the level street, and maybe Gilbert would glide over from the next block with his longhorn handlebars and mud flaps. The caravan would pick up speed and conviviality as the wind opened eyes and mouths. Wayne, Eddie and Jimmy might fall in line just west of the town square, and by the time...
...slam-on-the-brakes ending further unsettles the audience. Orton is too clever to present a simplistic, Marxist denouement where the proles emerge victorious. Instead, when the campers achieve their victory, they, including fireball Kenny, are unwilling to face up to what they did. The Erpingham insurgents begin to praise their own dictator; "revolution" accomplished nothing. They are back to square one as is the audience. The audience must be wondering who or what to believe in, and Orton's nihilism offers little comfort...