Word: tweak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their lives." The lesson for Ronald Reagan, says one of his political strategists, is that the election pressures should nudge him toward a greater pragmatism but no abandonment of his basic course. What the voters gave the President, in this adviser's view, was "a good, strong tweak in the nose...
Hank Ross had another idea that everyone hoped would give the game a last, irresistible quirk of personality. This is known in the business as "the tweak. He proposed having Bally's enormously popular Pac Man, a dot-gobbling yellow disc, help the player by eating balloons on the clown's head. And so it came to pass, and a sneak preview was held at a local arcade. The results, after all of this R. & D., were disastrous. The game, renamed Kick, took too long to play, and thus took in too few quarters. To remedy this, the rate...
...gentle tweak of a steel wheel not much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...