Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held and abandoned my hypotheses in this vein during post-season play. After Henderson's resurrection in playoff game five, I actually dared to suggest that God was a Red Sox fan. After the most providential rain delay in recent sports history, between games six and seven of the Series, I decided that God cannot influence human actions, but still controls the weather. After the last game, I realized that He must hate the DH rule so much that He only favors the Sox within the American League. (I must, of course, now also entertain the possibility that either...
...agency has taken several steps in its struggle to stay solvent. For one thing, it has raised the charges it levies on the thrift industry. Besides the basic premiums of $780 million, the agency will assess the industry an additional $1 billion this year. In a more controversial vein, the agency rules governing accounting methods enable thrift institutions to appear stronger than they actually are. For example, S and Ls can stretch out the reporting of losses from mortgage sales. Moreover, 122 S and Ls now count among their assets so-called net-worth certificates, which are little more than...
Arnold, realizing he had hit a vein, so to speak, followed with Commando, which for a plot had a Kleenex-thin excuse to set Arnold up with an army of extras--quite literally, they played an army--and an excuse to kill them all. Note carefully: this time he was the hero...
...superfolk -- Batman, Spider- Man, Wonder Wom- an -- and a host of newer, more ambivalent heroes, such as Viet Nam Soldier Ed Marks and the sultry Elektra, a machine- gun-toting assassin. The proliferation of new wonderfigures is impressive: some 250 different comic-book titles, largely in the heroic vein, will be sold in the U.S. this year, up from about 190 in 1985. With a combined circulation of roughly 150 million, the comics are more popular than at any other time since the early '50s. That in turn means heftier profits for new publishers and for the comic-book industry...
...slightly more serious vein is the comedy-drama Taxiing, where every week the crew of Aeroflot Flight 3 find new ways to amuse themselves and their passengers as they await permission to take-off from Minsk International Airport...