Word: snarled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station hit the grease and skidded right through the other side, taking its passengers to an unscheduled stop in the middle of a darkened tunnel. When the motorman backed up to see what had happened, the train slid through the station in the other direction as well. The ensuing snarl is supposed to have tied up transit officials and straphangers for hours...
...record day for disaster, even by the standards of megalopolitan Los Angeles. Early in the morning, Pasadena police cornered two terrorists in a catering office at the Rose Bowl, site of the Olympic soccer matches. A traffic snarl brought two major freeways to a steamy standstill, and a landslide smothered a chunk of the Pacific Coast Highway. During the Olympic cycling event, a section of bleachers at the Dominguez Hills velodrome collapsed, injuring 50 people. By day's end Angelenos had survived a bomb scare and a raging brushfire...
...with razor blades." He perfected his brand of radio ridicule in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, then carried it to syndicated television later in the decade, when hippies and antiwar protesters offered him a steady flow of irresistible targets. A generation of Pyne clones were soon imitating his snarl at other stations around the country, and for a time the style flourished. But Pyne died in 1970, and the popularity of his percussive style declined during the low-key 1970s. The 1980s have witnessed a comeback of sorts, as the decade's mood has become more aggressive...
...Year and the movie New York, New York, they have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys. Kander's tunes have the catchy dissonance of a Broadway traffic snarl just before show time; violins cower mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy and the horns bleat like Kurt Weill's orphaned children. Ebb never wrote a lyric as clawing as the imaginary one cited above, but he revels in devising anthems of urban...
...routine about visiting Africa is recycled from Live on the Sunset Strip; the warmup baiting of the audience was done in Live in Concert; the junkie serenade recalls Pryor's role in his 1973 melodrama Some Call It Loving. It can also be tough to maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter and gift for mimicry.) But even back-burner Pryor is hot enough. Savor...