Word: flack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hill rushed 90 yards for the Elis while sporting a flack jacket. Yale stayed unbeaten since last season's 10-3 loss to Dartmouth...
...thing, the city has been taking a lot of flack from Protestant groups and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union for offering to finance even part of the Pope's multi-million dollar visit. The groups insisted that the city not pay for the papal Mass on Boston Common. The City Council, however, granted $750,000 for the Pontiff's overnight stay...
...forget the fortress that housed the satanic gathering. In real life, however, the forbidding turrets and gables guard one of the oldest, ritziest and most famous apartment buildings in Manhattan. It is the Dakota, behind whose 2-ft. -thick brick walls live such celebrities as Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who own some 28 rooms throughout the Dakota and who once held a séance to commune with departed tenants. Other famous occupants have included Leonard Bernstein, Judy Holliday and Boris Karloff, plus several purported house ghosts. The Dakota is just the haunt, then...
...voice of sweet rough-and-tumble. Chuck E.'s in Love, the most unlikely hit of the season, is fixing to elbow all the disco aside and find a snug niche for itself in the Top Ten. The song proves that despite all the flash and flack, disco still has a considerable...
...free-for-all begins when her husband William, an overpaid Manhattan flack, is fired. A former boss offers Sara an assistant editor's job on a supermarket magazine. Before long the new employee is made privy to one of life's worst-kept secrets: it is more amusing to work in an office than to keep house. Not long after that, she graduates to a bigger secret: power is fun, particularly if you've never had any. Morning after morning, William watches his wife lacquer her face, pull on her high-style boots and merrily walk...