Word: warp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mentioned as a possible successor to Bowie Kuhn. The new diet fad, "weight clauses," has been somewhat annoying to fans who regard being in shape as the minimum requirement for being a professional athlete. Every Friday home game this season that Atlanta Third Base man Bob Horner does not warp the scale past 215 Ibs., he gains $7,692.31. Ozzie Smith, the Cardinals' nimble shortstop, doubled his salary to $1 million. Fernando Valenzuela also won $1 milion, in arbitration against the Dodgers. Steve Carlton's, reaction was to renegotiate an even richer deal with the Phillies, making...
Commissioner Gordon enters, blasting out the Romantics' "What I Like About You" and driving us into a New Wave frenzy. There's no resting now; no slow songs for a change of pace. "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show forces us once again to perform--this time it's a jump to the left, a step to the right, our hands on our hips, and our legs in tight. We all thrust our communal pelvises, though this time it hurts...
...balk at the claim that political condemnation of Israel signals the presence of anti-Semitism. Of course, the relationship is by no means categorical--many Jews and Judeophiles themselves, for example, have vehemently attacked Tel Aviv's foreign policy in recent months. And the idea that anti-Semitism could warp people's views on political issues seem distant to most. It's easy to forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand mention...
...Bless America. These shows may be aimed primarily at teens and preteens, but it is only from the canny nonsense of Square Pegs (CBS, Monday, 8-8:30 p.m.) that such viewers are likely to get a buzz of recognition. Weemawee High, happily, is not in the same time warp as Crestridge; in fact, it might pass for any local school where the students have actually heard of New Wave and use "punks" to mean musicians, not young criminals. Weemawee is a cockeyed canvas of persuasively contemporary adolescence across which Producer Anne Beatts (a former Saturday Night Live writer...
...England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...