Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concrete wall built next to the tennis court at his Beverly Hills home. Despite vertigo, he was drawn into the sport's intoxicating lure: in one shot he was doing upside-down situps, hanging from a chopper, when a crew member noticed that he had no safety belt. Stallone was bothered most by scenes filmed on a seven-story indoor wall at Rome's Cinecitta studios. "That was a lot scarier than the Alps," he says. "There's something about knowing that the floor is there and you could go splat at any time...
...limits of flesh; Jordan's constant partner is the silken Scottie Pippen, who might have been regarded as one of the kings of the game were he not in the company of royalty. The Suns' coach, Paul Westphal, is a serious, articulate Christian, a poster boy for Sun Belt conservatism; his opposite number on the Bulls, Phil Jackson, is a famous alumnus of the '60s who reminisces about his drug experiences, gives his players books like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to read and checks into hotels under the names of favorite Sioux warriors...
This past spring, with an entire year of training under his belt, Clarke decided to take a chance and enter the open division of the same Golden Gloves tournament...
...setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...
...malady she was spared was self-pity. Sue held her own at jacks and hide- and-seek, and later sneaked Viceroys with Nan behind the drugstore instead of going to Mass. She was the one with the sense of humor, memorizing the candy-on-a-speeded-up-conveyor-belt episode from I Love Lucy; the one who was tone-deaf but couldn't care less, belting out Cross Over the Bridge, the Patti Page rouser, at top volume...