Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children in a close-knit middle-class family. Although his parents James and Deloris pushed education, not sports, Michael developed into an athlete for all seasons, successfully competing in baseball, football and basketball. Larry Jordan, one year his elder, would prove a motivating force. Though Michael eventually outpaced and outgrew Larry, who still plays semipro basketball, he credits his elder brother for his aggressive style of play. "When you see me play," he says, "you see Larry play...
...entertainment edifice was a unique institution -- a cathedral of popular culture whose saints were mice and ducks, virgin princesses and lurking sprites, little boys made of wood and little girls lost in wonderland. Virtually every child attended this secular church, took fear and comfort from its doctrines, and finally outgrew it. The achievement of the Walt Disney Co. under Eisner has been to recapture the audience's childhood and extend it into adolescence and beyond. Today customers keep coming back to the movies and theme parks long after they have outgrown short pants...
...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...
...been 17 years since she last starred in a film and even longer since she outgrew the perky ears of the Mouseketeers. But there will always be a place in Fantasyland for Annette Funicello, 42. "Disney is close to my heart," says Funicello, who will see viewers real soon in Lots of Luck, a movie for the Disney cable channel. The comedy casts Funicello as a suburban housewife whose family gets rich on an incredible streak of contest winning but finally "goes back to being the nice family we once were." Next for Funicello? Would you believe a reunion with...
...polished piece of work. An able and politically adroit administrator, Lewis scored points for his decisive handling of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike a year and a half ago and his successful push for the federal gasoline-tax bill passed by Congress last month. But when Lewis outgrew his job, no other seemed soon in the offing. Admitted one top White House staffer: "He's felt underused...