Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Mrs. Aquino remains an important symbol of the spiritual purity and moral tenor of the new regime, she seems unable to clean out the stables. Political opportunists continue to jockey for position and to exploit every conflict within her government...
...endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch in all of the Triple Crown races. Romantics tended to credit that inch to Affirmed's young jockey, Steve Cauthen. "Maybe if it comes to that," Conner says softly...
...meet in prison. Planning their escape or simply getting to tolerate each other, they are three shaggy humans looking for a way out, and they communicate their anxiety through a kind of existential slapstick: Godot meets the Three Stooges. If you can get into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark off the days in their cell. The markings, of course, are gorgeous: Chinese calligraphy, bayou-style...
Even in a field known for chief executives in jeans and running shoes, Kapor is unconventional. A Yale graduate, he worked as a disk jockey and taught transcendental meditation before he started Lotus in 1982. Co-author of the Lotus 1-2-3 business program, the best-selling software ever, Kapor prospered as Lotus blossomed, and now owns 1.6 million of the company's shares, worth $54 million...
...example, a recent radio commercial has George Bachrach bursting into a radio station and insisting, despite a disc jockey's protests, on telling people his message. A television commercial pictures little old George standing next to and talking tough to this big fat general. All these attempts to reach the public bring little credibility to Bachrach's complaint that the Kennedy campaign is simply a name and no substance...