Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Super Bowl of Austria." Werner Wolf, former small town broadcaster, explained speed skating distances: "This is the 500 meter event--that's about five and a half football fields long." Curt Gowdy, on special leave from NBC's football and baseball coverage as well as a fishing buff, narrated the US vs USSR hockey game...
...Buff Carlson Carlisle...
...they became older. Both boys and girls had drums and hobbyhorses, tops and small animals carved out of wood, and alphabet blocks, not unlike the kind our own children still use. And colonial children played the same games some 20th century American children do: hopscotch, tag, blindman's buff, dominoes, cards. Slowly, as with our own boys and girls, hobbies, diversions or games became unintentionally educational in nature, as children copied adult activities, learning their "position" in society, a position then as now connected to one's sex, race and "background." Boys went fishing or hunting; girls played...
...Buildup," "The Movies," "The Studios" and "Behind the Scenes"; pictures of every player from Charlie Chaplin to Dustin Hoffman; stories of scandals, sex and scenarios. Between the book's oversized covers are enough memorabilia to turn the most indifferent Late Show viewer into an instant nostalgia buff-and bring the whole of Hollywood's fabulous past to LIFE...
...hazard: they are both addicted to athletics and regularly reminded how far they fall behind the pros (and a good many amateurs too) in speed and agility. Staff Writer Philip Taubman, who wrote this week's cover story on football's Pittsburgh Steelers, is a weekend tennis buff, but he has warily declined opportunities to play Jimmy Connors and other stars he meets while working. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein had a typically humbling experience while interviewing the Steelers' defensive tackle "Mean" Joe Greene at his Texas home for this week's story. At one point Rosenstein...