Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dennis A. Clarke '90 said Box for Africa--which uses proceeds from such competitions to help aspiring athletes in Africa and their nations' economies--approached the club earlier this year to ask it to organize a benefit...
During each successful contest, Ward crafts a picture of the owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...
Cunningham fouled the first pitch down third. After he looked at two low pitches from Dorrington, he fouled off the next two. Cunningham kept taking practice swings as he settled in the box. He looked at ball three, and then his patience payed off--he watched the pitch sail in low for ball four. Dorrington had walked...
Katz, who was one of the executives behind such recent Touchstone box office hits as "Three Men and a Baby" and "Cocktail," admitted that some of his company's movies are not of high caliber. "I'm appalled that I was involved with ['Cocktail']" he said...
...professional athletes, were charged with reaching into college ranks and illegally plying hot prospects with cash, cars and other perks for signing premature, postdated contracts. But the agents' lawyers maneuvered strenuously to shift the indictment's focus. Their target: the system of big-time college athletics that, with box-office and TV profits at stake, often looks the other way when stars get improper favors and that condones specious academic regimens to maintain those stars' eligibility...