Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fenton calls the black- naped oriole "the flaming youth of the forest, the jeunesse d'or, the jungle glitterati." And O'Hanlon is chillingly adept at describing the river torrent that nearly killed his friend, and at expressing some thoughts about the omnipresence of early death by misadventure: "No wonder the population was so perpetually young, so beautiful." Into the Heart of Borneo makes the island more surreal than enticing; nevertheless, O'Hanlon has announced plans for a similar three-month tour down the Amazon. Some people never learn; and a good thing...
...Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...
...strategy with Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois over a tuna-fish sandwich. He lectured House members on the folly of giving away bargaining tools to the Soviets: "As they enjoy the apple that falls from the tree that they did not have to pay for, they quite understandably wonder what other fruit will fall from that tree that they do not have...
...undergraduates can even get a glimpse of. These four courses, including one each on "Semiotics" and "Deconstruction" are all no older than last year's catalogue "Deconstruction" remains bracketed this year, and those itching to study "Semiotics" (also presently bracketed) will have to hold out until '86-87. No wonder Phinney and Suleiman found themselves over-whelmed by hordes of theory-hungry students--of all levels, from more concentrations than could be counted...
Pardoning Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for their ongoing gambling connections, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth was as munificent last week as a tax man forgiving the debts of Joe Louis. "The world changes," Ueberroth explained, leaving admirers of Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe Jackson to wonder if those Chicago miscreants of 1919 had merely been born too soon. (Say it ain't so, Joe Pepitone.) "I don't think," Ueberroth continued, "that we can start dictating who you can play golf with." So baseball is open again to shills...