Word: mermaids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single-minded as a shark. She ditched the homework she brought from California, but plans to offer the excuse that she had to sing The Star-Spangled Banner three times. After so many trips onto the podium, Evans concluded, "It's always the same -- pure honor." The littlest mermaid sees everything in a race, but nobody can see her. She makes you want to fish her out of the surf somehow, and hoist her up some way, to uncover just what she really does and whether her high-speed rotary blades have twelve arms or only eight. Matt Biondi...
...path was fairly smooth. In 1980 he was chosen as the co-star of Bosom Buddies, a short-lived comedy about two young advertising copywriters. A year after the show was canceled in 1982, Hanks landed the part of an ordinary guy who falls in love with a mermaid. Before you could say Splash, he was a star...
...push the company out of Walt's shadow, primarily by starting Touchstone Pictures to enable Disney to produce adult fare without compromising the company's image. In 1984 the Touchstone label produced Disney's first hit in more than a decade, Splash, in which Daryl Hannah played a frisky mermaid. But by then the company's profits and stock price were already plunging. The same day that Disney released the film, Roy Disney made a splash of his own by resigning from the board to launch an effort to oust the top management. He sensed an outside takeover looming, which...
...from her runaway wheelchair. She puzzled him by issuing orders to an octopus that had wrapped its tentacles around her, but he fell in love with her anyway and proposed. "Although I love you," she replied, "I can never marry you." Because, as Superman soon learned, she was a mermaid (Lorelei?), and the reason she rode in a wheelchair was to hide her tail...
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY: THE MERMAID (London). Long lost, a brooding tone poem and a late Romantic masterwork...