Word: stub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performer can stay at the peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions...
...Smoke 'em if you've got 'em" was the Army's traditional way of announcing a break for soldiers -- and it is no wonder that 52% of G.I.s smoke tobacco. Last week the newly health-conscious Army implemented a policy to stub out that hoary tradition. In a move assailed as "unjustified, unenforceable and unfortunate" by the Tobacco Institute, the service banned smoking in conference rooms, auditoriums, classrooms, all Army vehicles and at all times during basic training...
...early industrial landscapes of the '40s and a painting like Wotan, 1950, through the work of Kline's contemporaries--especially, in the '40s, De Kooning, whose influence on Kline was pervasive. A case can be made for Wotan as Kline's masterpiece; that extraordinarily forthright black rectangle, with a stub of the top "girder" sticking out to the right, is an image whose Wagnerian power fits its title. Majestic and a little slangy at the same time, it is one of the most commanding American paintings...
...Shopping-center-bound parents drop off their youngsters (ages five to ten) at Adelman's Kidpix flicks. Each child is identified by < a numbered claim check signed by a parent. Mom and Dad are given a beeper in case they need to be reached while in stores, and a stub matching their child's number, which they must present in order to fetch the child. Price...
...Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub of a man, appeared in dusty blues open at the throat, one button in the wrong hole, no sword, to embody the victory of some other American principle...