Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears that Boston's residents are finally beginning to wake up; of late, South Boston, East Boston and Charlestown residents, alarmed at the padlocking of police and fire stations, have "liberated" them. They need money more than symbols, though, and so they have lately begun to block traffic around the city in an attempt to dramatize their plight. We applaud their actions, and call on others to join them. For a little while it may work, as Boston borrows its way out of immediate trouble...
...national hero could scarcely avoid the presidency. He was boomed as a possible candidate in 1863, and in the wake of Lincoln's assassination, he was unbeatable. In his 1869 Inaugural Address, President Grant was the embodiment of American promise: he endorsed ratification of the 15th Amendment, granting voting rights to blacks, and pledged to bring "civilization and ultimate citizenship" to "the original occupants of this land." But the speaker's will was not as good as his word: he failed to block the stampede of gold hunters into the Black Hills Sioux country, and George Custer paid...
Justice was swift in the Old West; vengeance is mined in the New Hollywood. United Artists, which had rashly built the film's publicity campaign on the hope of rave reviews, withdrew Heaven's Gate in the wake of devastating pans. And the rash spread. Within days, all Hollywood was being held responsible for one director's profligacy, one studio's negligence. Every big-budget movie was the target of japery: Robert Evans' Popeye became "Evans' Gate," Warren Beatty's forthcoming Reds was "Warren's Gate...
Reagan spent the first few minutes of his address thanking the American people for "their messages, their flowers, and most of all their prayers" in the wake of the recent attempt on his life...
Bronfman, for now, is just quietly waiting. After all, he is earning $60 million in quarterly interest on the bundle of cash. Mindful of his own experience at art auctions, the sometimes impulsive Bronfman will tread carefully. Says he: "I do not want to wake up one night and say, 'My God, why did I buy that...