Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word from the New Age's reigning whirling dervish, Shirley MacLaine. To the soothing accompaniment of crystal chimes and distant waterfalls, the star of Terms of Endearment leads her new acolytes in meditating on the body's various chakras, or energy points. First comes the spinning red wheel of the base chakra, then the sexual pulsation of the orange chakra, and finally upward to the solar plexus and the visceral emotions of the yellow chakra...
...explain it to you," says Jackie Mason in his television commercials for the new Honda Prelude with four-wheel steering. Jabbing his elbows this way and that, the Borscht Belt funnyman proceeds to confuse a subject that is already complicated: "The car is going like this, the wheel is going like that, you're going like this because you can't figure out where did the back...
...pitch may be skewed, but the viewer gets the message: something new and strange is happening to the way cars are steered. Like so many technological advances these days, this one was made in Japan. Honda and Mazda began showing 1988 models with four-wheel steering in U.S. showrooms in September, and san and Mitsubishi are expected to follow quickly. Detroit's carmakers say they are still studying what is turning out to be the most talked about automotive innovation of the year...
...galloping "news correspondent" Tom Brokaw, fresh from his exclusive prime-time pow-wow with Gorby in Moscow. He still has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter "L", but he was in charge throughout with the help of the same bell that rings when letters are turned on Wheel of Fortune. Candidates knew their minute was up when a soft electronic bell was cued, much like Johnny Carson knows he has to break to a commercial when the pianist breaks into arpeggios...
...seemed to come from some new national folklore, timeless music conjuring a time that never was. He has been away eleven years now, ever since he organized rock's greatest farewell concert, 1976's The Last Waltz, during which he and the Band brought together "different spokes in the wheel of our music" -- Bob Dylan to Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell to Muddy Waters -- and saw themselves off into the history books in princely fashion...