Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, America's industrial rivals are flush with cash, either ! their own savings or the billions of dollars that import-hungry U.S. consumers have been spending on Japanese video gear, South Korean appliances and West German autos. Those wealthy nations are eager to use this money to tap the $1.3 trillion U.S. marketplace, where immense diversity and opportunity act as both a model and a magnet for the rest of the world. In addition, foreigners are eager to gain access to the advanced fruits of American research and technology, as well as to enjoy the benefits of U.S. rates...
...else that makes this campaign seem somewhat unreal, so eerily formless and wide open: for the first time in decades, there are few cutting issues or themes or ideologies for the candidates to ride in their quest to break out of the pack. No candidate has been able to tap a generational yearning for "new ideas," the way Gary Hart did four years ago. No candidate has been able to gain traction through such themes as radically reversing the role of Big Government, as Ronald Reagan did eight years ago, or appealing to anti-Washington populism, as Jimmy Carter...
...pity. But comedy is hard. It takes Astaire timing and kamikaze cojones to stand on a stage or a sound stage and do this: wear a novelty-store arrow on your head; blow up balloons, twist them into animal shapes and announce the resulting sculpture as "venereal disease!"; tap-dance maniacally when seized with an attack of "Happy Feet"; then build a movie career running variations on a character you might call the suburban jerk. And mainly this: wait bravely for years until your public gets the comic point...
...same thing for dancing. Before the advent of sound movies, dance for most Americans meant tap dancers "laying down iron" in vaudeville. Before Astaire, screen dance was a thundering herd of chorines tapping out a Busby Berkeley abstraction. "I didn't think I had too much of a chance," Astaire would later say -- with good reason. To be sure, he and his sister Adele had worked their way from Omaha through small-time vaudeville to stage stardom in New York and London. But Adele had retired, and at 34, Fred was not obvious star material: a skinny fellow with...
...called Leaving Home, will be published in the fall. Until then, the faithful in the U.S. will have to make do with APHC reruns on public radio and videotapes of the show made since March by the Disney Channel. Beyond that, will there be new dispatches from the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe? "I need to let some air into Lake Wobegon," said Keillor. "That's one of the reasons for leaving the show." But, he says,"I owe a movie script to Sydney Pollack." The story will be set in Lake Wobegon, some decades in the past. Keillor...