Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rome, if not worse." Indeed, while scooter-riding bandits in the Italian capital still lift bags from foreign shoulders along the Via Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering to help change the tire. Before a victim can say grazie, his luggage is out of the trunk and speeding down the road. Bolder thieves on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, smash the car windows...
...buzzer went off, signaling trouble in the plane's left engine. At about the same moment, an explosion resounded throughout the airport. "It was like a dull thud," said Neal Andrews, 38, a cab-driver who was waiting in the airport's taxi line. "I thought it was a tire blowing out," Sharon Jessop, 18, a student from Manchester, recalled nine hours after her harrowing escape from the wreckage...
...climb to middle-class acceptance, the Valenzuelas have all their tickets punched, save one. They own a growing used-tire shop and two cars. They rent a tidy, three-bedroom home in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Their four children maintain B averages in public schools. They pay Social Security and income taxes and keep a clean credit rating. All the family lacks is permission to live in America...
...short; a character can't be too thin or too rich. It doesn't hurt to have walk-on parts for real celebrities. Erich Segal is an able practitioner of glitz lit. As a classics scholar (he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton), he understands that readers never tire of seeing the proud and the privileged lowered by fate. Love Story, his bittersweet ode to the Ivy League, established him as the preppies' Pindar. The Class is his bid to be their Homer...
...clouds, we drag out the grills and declare a barbeque. Eager and willing to celebrate this long-anticipated new season, impatient Winthropians don Hawaiian shirts and sun-glasses. Music comes blasting into the courtyard from some heavenly sphere--or is it really only that fourth floor window? Miraculously, a tire swing appears in a nearby tree. Idyllic, you say. Just exactly how a spring day should be, you say. Well, you're wrong. Something is amiss with this picture...