Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alive mostly on bread and warm water. He used various intellectual exercises to hold on. He solved in his head math puzzles he had read in a book by the American science writer Martin Gardner. Soaking up the water in his toilet with rags, then leaning deep into the bowl, he took lessons in Hebrew from a fellow prisoner stationed at his own bowl in an adjacent cell, who called out to him through the lavatory pipe...
...bleachers of the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. You are waiting for the game--no, The Game--to begin. You would be warmer if you were lying naked atop an igloo, you think. And, still, you think, it is worth it. It is worth losing a few toes over. This game means something. This game is for the Ivy League championship. This is The Game...
With just under two minutes gone in the second quarter, he finds Mike Stewart streaking down the sidelines and gets him the ball. Cheers roll around the Yale Bowl. You take a sip of the strong stuff. With halftime 10 seconds away, Yale kicker Dave Derby attempts a 44-yd. field goal. No way he makes it, you say. He does--the longest boot of his career. You take another...
...telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers are skeptical that Turner can acquire such blockbuster events, but there is a growing sense that his ambitious new network just might succeed. Its very arrival makes a statement: heady days are here again for cable...
...Seoul. With its growing financial clout, cable could one day bid for the rights to major events like the World Series -- though whether it could successfully take such events away from "free TV" is doubtful. "It will snow in July before you see the World Series or the Super Bowl on cable," says Herbert Granath, president of ABC's cable division. "Congress would intervene to prevent that...