Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WALK into any so-called health food store and you'll soon see that most are like franchised versions of the old side-show huckster who promises love with his magic potions and elixirs. Somewhere in front of the legumes you'll confront some of the ever-present, catchy slogans that infiltrate our fitness mentality : CRASH WEIGHT GAIN, RIPPED 'ABS' IN FIVE SECONDS, LOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU SLEEP, BIG BICEPS WHILE YOU DO NOTHING BUT SPEND MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT...
...everyone was so enthusiastic. Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez called the new proposals "encouraging" but only "very timid steps." Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, warned against looking for a "magic elixir" to solve the crisis. In a speech before a conference on Third World debt in Washington, Volcker explained, "If not well managed, a process of debt reduction clearly could be hazardous to the health of debtors and creditors alike...
...those members of selection committee and you say the obvious to yourself. "That league is ruining the excitement, the attraction, the attendance, the magic, the esteem, no...the very essence of my baby which makes the NCAA tournament transcend life as we know...
...London and give up a kidney for transplant, the British Prime Minister said that "the sale of kidneys or any organs of the body is utterly repugnant." Emergency legislation is now being prepared for swift approval by Parliament to make sure that capitalism does not perform its celebrated magic in the market for human organs...
They thought that they were making movies, but they were really making magic in 1939, the most glittering twelve months of Hollywood's Golden Age. There was Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . . . on and on, with stars whose names have lasted a half-century...