Word: babe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort are hardly new. Still, there is an impression that boxing has been spreading around its patents in the allied areas of recovered faith and mistimed goodbyes. Perhaps it is the money...
...sweater was back, and so too, it seemed, was Rather's cold. Was he fighting a cold or fatigue--and if so, was he using speed to do the trick? No, most probably not, but that at least would explain his ballpark behavior. "Ronald Reagan is like the Babe Ruth of politics," Rather said, leaning forward intently. "The old democratic coalition is going"--right arm waves frantically to the side--"going"--a little more frantic waving--"gone!--waving climaxes and is accompanied by a little jump from seat. Ever the educator, Rather, as he announced each state's returns, punctuated...
...Brokaw couldn't match Rather's Babe Ruth analogy, but not for a lack of effort. "This steamroller, this wave--I'm running out of metaphors!" But to be fair to Brokaw, how else could one describe the evening's outcome? (Those readers who suggested "this victory" are on the right track.) Brokaw also fell into the habit of asking commentator John Chancellor for his "immediate thoughts" on this or that. After NBC projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least...
...stood to reason, their games stayed a little stiller in time, though grassy and unlit Wrigley Field obviously had much to do with it. "Their ivy-covered burial ground," the late composer Steve Goodman called it, where Gabby Hartnett hit his Homer in the Gloamin' and Babe Ruth may have pointed to the sky. Bill Veeck, who planted the original outfield vines in 1938, sits out there every day now bleaching his peg leg. That style of ivy is called bittersweet...
...jarring sight of an old athlete in a new uniform is common, though these images fade with such dispatch that the players are wise not to do the same. No one pictures Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas and Bob Cousy as a Boston Brave, a San Diego Charger and a Cincinnati Royal. Joe Namath's farewell passes wobbled not in the cause of the New York Jets but on behalf of the Los Angeles Rams. The sweeping fullback of the Green Bay Packers, Jim Taylor, was swept out with the New Orleans Saints...