Word: buster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Team Tyson, represented in court by Washington attorney Vincent Fuller, seemed unimpressed by the prosecution -- as if Garrison were Buster Douglas just before Iron Mike got tanked in Tokyo two years ago. "There were one or two members of Fuller's staff," notes Garrison, "who did not think us country bumpkins could find our asses with both hands." They were wrong about him, and about Washington. "She's a good kid with a pure heart and a tremendous amount of courage," Garrison says. "And she shined like a new penny in front of that jury...
Explaining Blue Man Group is no easy task. Take the Blue Men themselves. They are expressionless and robotic, yet oddly childlike and endlessly creative: a tripartite Buster Keaton, dropped in from Saturn. Some of the bits are overtly satirical (a dead fish on a canvas is the subject for a high-toned art critique, which scrolls by on an electronic message board). Others are raucously playful. One of the Blues tosses what appears to be marshmallows across the stage to a comrade, who catches them with his mouth and stuffs them inside like a huge wad of bubble...
This is probably not on the scale of Buster Douglas upsetting Mike Tyson. But in the microcosm in which followers of Harvard basketball live, it is earth-shattering...
...while unions may have an important role to play in protecting workers, Harvard union sympathizers should think again before yelling "scab" or "union buster." Although idealized as a force for the good of labor, there is a dark side to America's unions. And to the Daily News unions in particular...
While the football team spent Saturday at West Point trying to impersonate Buster Douglas, the men's rugby teams took over Soldiers Field and made sure that no upsets would be taking place on its home turf...