Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barry Levinson, the director of "Good Morning, Vietnam," and the film's producer. Mark Johnson, will discuss the movie which stars actor-comedian Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, an irreverent and immensely popular dise-jockey on the Armed Forces Vietnam Network...
...which has badly damaged his reputation for curbing the senseless violence. Second, in the event of violent clashes between left and right, the President would have scapegoats to blame for El Salvador's failure to live up to the strictures of the Central American peace accord. "Everyone wants to jockey for p.r. advantage," says a U.S. State Department official. "They seem to have figured out that when the January deadline ((for the peace plan)) rolls around, no one will be in complete compliance. So the thing to do is appear to have done more than anyone else...
...recent years the proliferation of "raunch radio" personalities like Howard Stern, the acid-tongued New York disk jockey, has raised a public outcry over broadcast vulgarity. Last April the FCC responded by altering its definition of what constitutes indecent programming. Under the old guidelines a program was deemed indecent only if it used one or more of the "seven dirty words" made famous in a comedy routine by George Carlin. The new ruling broadened the standard to include anything that depicts sexual or excretory activity in terms that are "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...
They say that when a jockey falls off his horse, he should jump right back in the saddle. That way, he won't be afraid of riding in the future...
Complete with a jockey in shape of a bear...