Word: striping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Broderick works best as a culture buzzard, circling scenes of death and derangement, identifying choice morsels by stripe and cry. His range includes a wide variety of wildlife: a condemned murderer named Germany Baker, a radical feminist with a wardrobe of obscene T shirts, an ambitious, self- absorbed television newswoman, black and Hispanic militants, limousine , liberals and Fritz Finn, President of the U.S., who has had an affair with Broderick's late sister. Jack's brother Augustine, affectionately known throughout the world as Bro, is a Benedictine priest with 14 honorary degrees, a 43-line entry...
Coming into last week at the bottom of the Ivy League ratings for Field goal and free throw percentage the Crimson has now moved, into third--a notch above Princeton and three above Penn--in shooting from the floor, and fifth from the charity stripe...
...Crimson was much more effective from the charity stripe against Columbia, hitting 23 of 30 attempts, including 14-for-16 in the second half...
...Chuck Jones, 74, director of so many Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Road Runner animated shorts that even he has lost count. Jones has no trouble recalling the number of books he has produced: this is his first. The star is a highly odiferous creature who wears his white stripe in front, where no enemy can see it. In the forest, confusion reigns supreme. The panthers, foxes and bears are afraid to hunt; without a stripe across the back, any small, furry animal might be a stinker. Will hunger prevail? Jones believes in a peaceable kingdom, but he is well...
...authors, who have understandably sought to preserve their anonymity, have broken with their normal color-coding of the book's cover. Over the past few years, the stripe on the cover had been progressing along the electro-magnetic spectrum, and most industry analysts expected this year's to be a color only dogs could see. Instead, the book's iconoclastic authors have once again shown their disregard for stale traditions and have decorated the book with a crimson banner, as well as a large 350th logo...