Word: unscrewed
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...makes sense that just a year after his unsuccessful (and not for lack of effort) attempt to unscrew his coach's head, Latrell Sprewell showed up for his first day as a New York Knick to applause far louder than team and union leader Patrick Ewing got. And now Sprewell, who is leading his bottom-seeded team in an unprecedented run toward the NBA finals, symbolizes the entire league. After a shortened season filled with the sloppiest play since the ABA, the Knicks are thriving on the wildness that has been this season's leitmotiv...
...watch is, to all appearances, an ordinary timepiece. But tucked into a small cylinder that blends with its gray titanium casing is a 2-ft. antenna. To activate the beacon, you unscrew the cap and unreel the antenna. Approved for use in Europe and Asia (and, pending FCC approval, in the U.S.), the $5,000 Swiss watch also keeps pretty good time...
They are Dennis the Menace come to life, half-pint hellions who drive parents and teachers to distraction with their disruptive antics. At home they clamber on kitchen counters, unscrew light bulbs and mess up the simplest tasks, from hanging up their clothes to making the bed. In school they throw erasers, kick desks, shove classmates and are so busy making nuisances of themselves that they fail to absorb their lessons. One bedeviled mother speaks for many when she says, "I would have given the kid away...
...family who was in charge of putting the hair on the toothpaste. (They all denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...
...admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow or on the road, this has always been a risky business. The author's father once blamed his son's troubles on the need to "unscrew the unscrutable." He might have asked, How're you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen satori...