Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wrong window, buddy...
...tribal rituals. No 19th century explorer snacking on pickled sheep's eyes could have honored bizarre local customs more graciously. She took a rock out of her pocket, explained that it came from the top of Everest, and asked politely whether she could heave it through the studio window. "Of course," said Letterman. She chucked it with a good sidearm motion, and there was the familiar sound effect of breaking glass that Letterman fans have grown to love. Fade to commercial...
...hobbyist" market usually go for a couple of hundred dollars. Besides having model numbers that make them sound like racing cars, boards like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland E-20 ($2,500) even has a liquid-crystal display window that flashes such information as the chord being played and the tempo being used, expressed in beats per minute. Looking at a readout to see what chord you are playing can be a hotdog move, like a weekend racer eyeing his tachometer to check how he is doing...
...MacDonald set out to improve the Navajos' economy by demanding better prices for the tribe's oil, coal and natural-gas reserves. Along the way, say his critics, the Chairman spent tribal funds profusely. He reportedly hired a public relations firm for $1.5 million. He had his office in Window Rock, Ariz., remodeled for $600,000, of which $4,800 alone went to pay for carved office doors. He chartered a jet for more than $18,000 to take him and his family to the 1988 Orange Bowl...
...director stumbled across Adams' story. "I was interested enough that I wanted the details," Morris recalls. What he found in the prosecutor's files shocked him. The slain officer's partner, who testified that the killer had bushy hair like Adams', had at first told investigators that the car window "was too dirty to see through." Prosecutor Doug Mulder argued that the defense could not cross-examine a witness because she was traveling. In fact, she was staying at a Dallas hotel, possibly with the prosecutor's knowledge. She revealed to Morris that she had failed to pick Adams...