Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events. It's no trick to get Universal Widget to underwrite a Renoir show, or one of those PBS nature series (six hours of granola TV, with bugs copulating to Mozart). But try them with newer, more controversial, or more demanding work and watch the faces in the boardroom drop. Corporate is nervous money; it needs the NEA for reassurance as a Good Housekeeping Seal of approval. Our problem, despite conservative rant, is too little Government support for the arts, not too much. Even if we had a ministry of culture to parade the roosters, we would still need...
Attention K mart shoppers! If you are wondering where to spin your TV dial this September, drop by any of the discount retailer's 2,200 stores. You will be regaled with signs and posters trumpeting CBS shows. Every TV set in the store will be tuned to CBS as well. The chain and the network are even teaming up to promote the CBS/K mart Get Ready Giveaway. The contest, to be advertised on the air and in K mart newspaper supplements, will offer viewers the lure of big prizes if they can match numbers on a card with figures...
...people in the front were screaming and yelling," said James Moriarty of New York. "[The pilot] said be prepared for metal on concrete. So that's what we were preparing for. It wasn't that bad, though. You felt like you were just waiting for the nose to drop...
...wagon trains are constantly on the move in South Dakota, tracing a cross-country odyssey that will take them about 2,500 miles before they hook up at the state fair at Huron in late August. Manned by eager volunteers who drop in and out as their stamina and patience dictate (no charge, all welcome), the trains cover up to 24 miles between overnight camps, where they circle in classic fashion. Some vehicles are older than the state itself. Some come from as far afield as Texas and Pennsylvania. When the trains pull out each morning, cries of "Wagons...
...thought to have gone soft in the head. This is the Mommy Track problem, though Hochschild does not use the phrase. A Daddy Track is barely in sight, though some men might enjoy not having to seem conventionally ambitious and being able, like modern women, to drop into and out of their careers...