Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PYRAMID...
...great game shows of bygone days remain fixed in our subconscious. The obnoxious blare of a strike on "Family Feud," the whammies dancing across the screen in "Press Your Luck," the frenetic gesticulations of contests on the "$25,000 Pyramid:" all are permanently imprinted in the minds of many in our generation. Possibly Harvard's "Game Show Guru," Mandel N. Ilagan '99 admits that his first memories of television came in the form of game shows...
...been special episodes with celebrity participants. In recent years, "Jeopardy," Family Feud," and "Wheel of Fortune" have opened their games to famous actors and professional athletes. This trend is something of a takeoff on the regular appearances of second-rate stars on "Hollywood Squares" and "The $25,000 Pyramid" in the 1980s. However, possibly due to increased studio funding, the guest contestants on today's shows are certainly more credible than "Hollywood Squares" staples Jim J. Bullock, Louie Anderson, and Shadoe Stevens...
...died in a Japanese pow camp after smuggling his unit's flag past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded by a pair of sphinxes. These are not the original sphinxes, which Mrs. Viele found too buxom, and which were then sunk...
...next four years the team raised money by consulting and creating an intricate credit card pyramid scheme involving 25 credit cards, and made it through a continuous cycle of "'We'll be done in three months' deadlines...