Word: torch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, Chris Collet, clad in a t-shirt, blue jeans, and Topsiders, doesn't look the kind of person who'd play a battered child adopted by a drag queen in the Torch Song Trilogy or a teen who gets decapitated in the horror flick Sleepaway Camp...
...over how to count "self-defense" and "secret self-defense" forces. These fighters, who operated, respectively, in enemy-and U.S.-held territory, laid traps and took potshots but were not part of regular combat units. Komer, who was known to Viet Nam-era journalists as Blow Torch for his high-powered manner, was asked by CBS Attorney David Boies whether these forces were armed. Komer laughed. "We never could find these people," he said, "much less determine whether they were armed." Responding to CBS charges that Westmoreland and others had felt pressure to produce upbeat troop-level estimates, Komer added...
...class people go on their days off and drink beer and wave pennants and watch a baseball game." Nowhere but in America-and Japan and South Korea and the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and so what? Let her feel patriotic when she watches the Dodgers play ball. The Olympic torch had nothing to do with patriotism either; indeed, it is a symbol of supranationalism. But as the torch zigzagged among them from east to west this summer, people waved flags, cried and sang America the Beautiful...
...long ago he might have had a sticker plastered over his mouth that read PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED, but Richard Pryor, 43, the incendiary comic who in 1980 turned himself into a human torch while free-basing cocaine, is now host of a children's show called Pryor's Place, which debuts on CBS this Saturday morning. In a fantasy urban setting, the comedian will cavort with the Krofft puppets, tell stories about his own childhood, and impersonate several characters, including Chills, a hip saxophone player, and Carlotta, a savvy fortuneteller. The weekly half-hour may be a long...
...Arts and Sciences, whose circulation has flowed smoothly, if somewhat sluggishly, since the argumentative sixties, will receive a hefty injection of new blood this fall. In the most notable of a series of administrative changes, 11-year veteran Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky this July handed the torch to 40-year-old wunderkind A. Michael Spence. In addition to learning the ropes in his new role, the former chairman of the Economic Department is acting as his own associate deans for undergraduate and graduate education...