Word: babe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late at night and you're starving. You dial 783-1565, but Babe's Pizza has just stopped delivering for the night. Sadly, you turn to your refrigerator, but upon opening it, you find two bottles of beer and some moldy cream cheese, but no bagels, and certainly...
...refers to Gooden's pitching, not his hitting. "Oh, I love to hit," Gooden says. "When the Mets drafted me as a pitcher, I was upset. The Pirates had timed me running the bases, the Angels too. Why couldn't I be a hitter?" That cinches it. He's Babe Ruth...
George Herman Ruth would have been a loser; Babe Ruth will never be forgotten...
...SEXINESS of its opening and its Calvin jeans ad campaign. The Sure Thing is not a very sexy film. Even in the dream seduction sequences between Gib and the his bikini beach babe, the girl just asks for "More" and Cusack dreamily says "later, later, later" It doesn't sound like love; it doesn't look like sex (of an R-rating quality); and it comes across, in the end, like something of a long, hard to film masturbatory sequence. Good enough. Eroticism is as distant from Cusack's physical repertoire as genuine Voltaire-level perception is from his musings...
...today, the two-hand set shooter Bob Davies, 65, wisely consoled him: "You can only be a little bit better than your competition." Gretzky and Bird could use each other for competition. Some day they will be explained by the numbers, but the statistics will be as unreliable as Babe Ruth's. "It wasn't just that Ruth hit more home runs than anybody else," observed Red Smith, who rode trains with Ruth and felt no need to exaggerate his ample stature. "He hit them better, higher, farther, with more theatrical timing and more flamboyant flourish. Nobody could strike...