Word: yells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is scary. The issue is not a man's right to yell at his wife (or vice versa) on the privacy of his own tennis court. The issue is the public's right to know about a politician's private life. So Frank Carlucci is a cut-throat egomaniac who yells at his wife because he is insecure about his baseline game. What right does any newspaper have to tell us about this and why in the world should we care...
Indoor baseball comes to the World Series: the resourceful new Twins against the old reliable Cardinals. -- N. F. L. players yell uncle...
...devil's advocate, dwelling on the negatives. His mother Pauline moderated. "Dammit," said her husband afterward, "I think he's talked himself out of it." But his son telephoned the next day: "Dad, it's go." Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains, "I think my son had to establish that it would be his campaign and that he'd be doing it in his own way." Jane Eskind, an admiring fellow Tennessee Democrat, observes, "Albert Sr. sees in Al Jr. the fulfillment of his own dreams...
...other residents pass by, they yell out tohim, asking if he has told the story of hisnear-ordainment and the one about his polyps yet,or if the story of his commendation from thesuperintendent of schools in sixth grade hasimpressed suitably...
Comedy is the original no-respect art form. Primitive man knew that if he were to be hit over the head by his fiercest rival, then stumble around and yell "Aarrggh!," he would be acclaimed as a great tragedian. But if he were to do ten minutes of witty stand-up, then bash himself with a club, he would be accused of doing shtick. It is ever thus. At the movies, comedy may be king at the wickets, and most of Hollywood's nouveau novas -- Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Pee-wee Herman...