Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pilot Bill Parker of Friendswood, Texas, worked out the problems coolly. The right stuff. They even got a little cocky. They began to try out banter over the radio in the style of deadpan macho that astronauts affect. When the fire started, Parker took emergency steps (activating switches to spray the area with a chemical fire retardant) and offered a nonchalant little witticism: "Uh, that's a roger, Houston . . . We have standby marshmallows on board." The mission calmed down and Commander Cerier improvised in low-key astronautical style: "It's a pretty view from up here . . . Looks like Miami...
...lead-off batter is Brandon Tartikoff, a sharp-fielding spray hitter in his sixth season as president of NBC Entertainment and third baseman on the company softball team. As Tartikoff steps to the plate against the Warner Bros. squad, a giant radio in the bleachers begins to blast out the driving theme song from Miami Vice. Inspired, Tartikoff slaps a double, leading NBC to a four-run inning. The team's "music manager" puckishly announces that all who have not hit safely must henceforth bat to the somewhat less blood- quickening theme from Punky Brewster...
...place of freedom." Maybe so, but the rules for Joo, who now goes by the name Jennifer, and her two younger sisters would strike many U.S. youngsters as unduly restrictive. No telephone calls to or from boys. No curling irons or pierced ears until age 15. No hair spray and makeup until after high school. "When you are a student, you should look like a student," says her mother Hae Sun Yoo. "That is hard to tell children when society contradicts that here." She and her husband have the solution. "When our daughters complain, 'Why can't we do this...
...sort of visual fluoride. Its role has also withered as social compacts about the use of public space have been trashed. The aerosol valve has done for eyes in American cities what the suitcase radio has done for ears: civility dies before the corrosive jibber-jabber and the intrusive spray can. Graffiti are the strangling weeds on the ruins of the idea of public art. No wonder most city dwellers today think of public sculpture as just one more semivisible addition to an already cluttered environment, and would rather have a nice tub of petunias...
...stage, on the other hand, is both colorful and suitably. The runaways sing, declaim complain, fight, and run around in the freedom of a worn-down playground, replete with traffic signs and spray-painted graffiti on its wails. The band, visible through a wire fence off to the side, provides a steady but often disengaging sountrack for the runaways, exploits. The show peaks in Act II when the Inner City Breakers, a young street-styled trio, stage a friendly invasion onto the playground and perform some impressive rounds of break dancing. Although visibility could be better, the dancers bring...