Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Superman's personality has been threatening to go splitsville ever since he was saddled with the alter ego of Clark Kent, ace reporter and consummate nerd of the Daily Planet. Clark is every clumsy, sweet-souled teen-age boy who ever fantasized scoring the big touchdown or scoring with the prom queen; Superman is the 6-ft. 4-in. embodiment of that dream. This man is both men, hulk and hunk, and no telephone booth is big enough to house the inherent contradictions...
Entrants in the contest for the largest morel came from as far away as South Carolina. The sport is often known as "rooming" or "shrooming"; one ace picker is Jim Goodwin, 45, a construction worker from West Liberty, Ohio, who snapped up 150 morels in a few hours. A novice might be wary of the poisonous cap. However, experts say that Morchella esculenta or the five or six other varieties of the most sought after morels can be clearly identified by their pitted, spongy caps and attached hollow stems. Chilly weather this spring has driven morel prices...
This is a defect it shares with whoever conceived Blue Thunder, which is by far the lesser of Badham's back-to-back releases. The film's nominal plot has Roy Scheider as a good Los Angeles police department chopper ace assigned to test what amounts to a flying gun platform. Once he discovers its illiberal potential, he must fight his way past Malcolm McDowell, an old neofascist enemy from his Viet Nam days now employed as a power-elite gunslinger. After that dogfight comes a showdown with a couple of Air Force jets...
Both teams enter the playoffs with strong pitching staffs, and Harvard's is so balanced that each of the four starters has served as the staff ace at one time or another. Sophomore right hander Charlie Marchese is the hottest entering the playoffs, with 16 strikeouts in two clutch performance against Dartmouth and Navy...
AMHERST--The dream is over Not even a IKO in the 15th, nor a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth, nor an ace on match point could hurt so much...