Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minn., smashed open his 16th-floor window, dangled briefly from a sheet, then fell to his death on a third-floor deck. Harry Gaines, 69, and his wife Lorraine, 67, of Los Angeles, heeded the usual survival advice. They fled into their tenth-floor bathroom, shut the door, crammed wet towels under it and stuffed other towels into the air vents...
...Schorr wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion) had someone flared at him? Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious as to why only 41 of the 52 hostages were...
...face adorned the front pages, the network's ratings and profits plummeted. Now, though, as NBC finally unveils its new fare, Silverman may have something to crow about. Two shows-Flamingo Road, a sultrier Dallas, and Harper Valley P. T.A., featuring Barbara Eden in a smile and a wet T shirt-have already buoyed the network's ratings. A third show, which is being tested at 10 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, offers even more. It is a comedy-drama called Hill Street Blues, and it is the best new series since Taxi...
...wintry sort of book. It belongs to the wet, inturned season when nights are long and there is plenty of time to let thoughts roam. Time seems suspended; thoughts float across a century back and forth, scenes and words fade in, become sharply realized, and then mist into Doig's own reflections. The foggy, drizzling winter is always beautifully present to induce a daydreamy readiness for time travel and introspection; it is Doig's favorite climate, and he knows one can't move too fast in our sluggish, droopy winter. A page-turner Winter Brothers is not; it needs plenty...
Hard times, the wet-dry fuss, national politics-these things obsessed Americans all year, but not to the exclusion of all else. In Dixon, Davenport and all over, people avidly followed sports. Baseball was the game, Babe Ruth the hero-and one who alone would have made the year memorable: flamboyantly gesturing toward the centerfield bleachers where he intended to hit the home run that would, and did, help the Yankees sweep the Cubs in the World Series...