Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fights into his 20 years, but is still a lightweight and still a southpaw. Glory could be as hard to find as opponents. Kindly the referee cautioned Far-rain Comeaux's handlers to keep a towel handy for tossing into the ring. They asked if they might just wave it, and he said they could. They did. Then, before Headliner Mark Breland came out, poor Tyrell Biggs, 23, went six well-hooted rounds with a muscle-bound actor named Mike Evans, the Budweiser Light "champion" who tells the kid, "Hey, you'll get your chance...
...make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half-time pageant, two entertaining movies arrive with a complementary pair of star figures for the next generation. Supergirl: the girl next door...
AFEW YEARS ago, when The Sex Pistols first toured America, this country began to be conscious of a strange movement, an unprecedented mix of nihilistic attitudes, bizarre fashion and screeching volume--punk, What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks...
...Seattle; 18,000 in Atlanta; 50,000 in Amherst, Mass. In fact, stop for stop, she frequently outdrew Mondale. That was doubtless due in part to the novelty of her candidacy, but Ferraro also became a consummate pro at working audiences, acknowledging chants of "Gerry! Gerry!" with a rakish wave and confident smile...
...Gandhi more than the occurrence of violence in any part of the country. It is of prime importance at this moment that every step we take be in the correct direction." But already he must have known that even as the storming of the Golden Temple had produced a wave of Sikh anger that had led to the assassination, so the murder of his mother would precipitate a terrible reaction in Hindu India...