Word: uniformization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They put on a uniform -- one leg at a time -- before every game, yet they never play. They come in two basic shapes: potbellied pinups for prepackaged diet plans and tightly wound, taut-skinned, tanned Marlboro men. Their first names usually end with that boyish diminutive, the letter y, as in Casey, Whitey, Sparky, Tommy and Buddy. We are, of course, talking about big-league baseball managers, one of the strangest breeds in pro sports...
Sure, the movie does follow the other time-tested rules of that genre. The hero never has to reload his gun, the villains' weapons jam in critical situations, and the know-it-all in uniform really knows nothing. And, like in the first Diehard, the plot is farfetched enough to keep the movie from being too predictable...
...fact, if there's anything that unites many of the different groups in the Square, it's the academic air they possess. The book-filled backpack (the embodiment of "intellectual baggage," perhaps?) is the closest thing to a uniform Cambridge has to offer...
...person undercover is not going to help us; a uniform will." said Mike Silverman of The Cambridge Shop on Dunster...
...group created in the early 1900s as an Irish patriot's answer to Baden-Powell's John Bullish Boy Scouts. Members did a lot more than sing folk songs and hike; they fought, and the authorities made no distinction between Fianna and I.R.A. suspects. Fianna members had their own uniform, and the black shirts, berets and sunglasses gave even small children a scary paramilitary look. The youngsters became a macabre part of the pageantry in every I.R.A. funeral cortege...