Word: busters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begins with a clip from the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, showing Buster Crabbe happily engaged in space exploration in the 25th century. But the real 25th century, says THX 1138 director George Lucas, is a denatured anthill where populations lead lives of quiet respiration. Every bodily function is mechanically analyzed; sexual relations are forbidden; food consists of ampuls and dehydrated protein bars...
Under Durham's tutelage, Joe had 40 amateur fights and lost only one, to a 300-lb. behemoth named Buster Mathis in the 1964 Olympic trials. When Mathis suffered an injury, Joe went to Tokyo in his stead and won the heavyweight Gold Medal?even though he had to fight through three rounds of his final match with a broken thumb. Returning home penniless and with a heavy cast on his hand, he was unable to work for six months and had to live off his wife's $60-a-week salary as a factory worker. In desperation, he took...
What Clay had, Frazier wanted. In the scramble for a share of Ali's vacated title, he defeated his old nemesis, Buster Mathis, to become the recognized champ in seven states. The rest of the country belonged to "World Boxing Heavyweight Champion" Jimmy Ellis. Nettled by his title of "partial champ," Joe took on Ellis last year and dropped him with two paralyzing left hooks in the fourth round; Jimmy's manager threw in the towel. Arms raised, Frazier cried as he leaped around the ring: "Free at last! Free at last...
...reasons that even the TeleSessions hosts don't fully understand, two people seldom talk at once, interruptions are rare and discussions generally follow a polite, orderly sequence. Among the specialty groups meeting regularly are gourmet cooks, advanced photographers and small-business presidents. Groups of science-fiction buffs. Buster Keaton fans and wine connoisseurs will soon be on the line...
Keaton once confessed that there were two of him, "Me and my understudy, Buster II. Buster II could do anything -play and never get tired, be rich and handsome, never grow old. And write checks until the cows came home." Buster I died worn and neglected in 1966. Buster II is alive and funny, in the best film festival of any year...