Word: sy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade, and is expected to increase further in the next few years. Sure, there are advantages to starting a family in your late 30s and early 40s. But what about the children who must build sand castles with graying oldsters who can't play ring-around-the-ro sy without breaking into a sweat...
...celebrated as the comic foil of Groucho Marx, George Burns and, most memorably, Jack Benny. It was for the Benny show that he regularly played a polar bear, an antique car, a "Union Depot train caller" ("Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc . . . amonga!"), a parrot, a Mexican ("What's your name?" "Sy." "Sy?" "Si"), and the choleric Professor LeBlanc, Jack's violin teacher: "Meester Be-nee, could I have some water, please?" "Water? Yes. There's some in the cooler down the hall." "That ees not enough. I would like to drown myself...
...Nash decided that they wanted to perform an old Bob Dylan tune, Ballad of Hollis Brown. But the rock group needed the sheet music for the song, and the most accessible copies were at the Secaucus, N.J., offices of Warner Bros. Publications. The group telephoned Warner Vice President Sy Feldman, who asked if the performers had access to a fax machine. Luckily, one of those electronic wonders was available at their hotel. In the time that it takes to sing the ballad, the band had copies of it in their hands. They performed the song in both shows that night...
Critics of the test note that the magazine quaffed the fresh-tasting stuff from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt rather than the sometimes foul-smelling brew from the groundwater basins of the San Fernando Valley. While the report has gratified local officials, it has perturbed others. Says Sy Linden, co-owner of a Santa Monica appliance store: "This story is killing my water-purifier business...
...subtle and cunning variations on the classic tux ($1,395), and Issey Miyake strikes off into fresh territory with an easy-fitting model with no lapels ($1,000), but tradition holds sway in tuxedo design. "You want to know what I think about those colored things? They stink," says Sy Max, owner of Baldwin Formals in Manhattan. "Our tuxes are for people not buying for fads," comments Jack R. McDonald of the highly regarded Oxxford Clothes in Chicago, whose basic silk model runs about $1,300. "Our primary market is the power structure of this country...