Word: californians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Katie Ditzler, sporting "the strongest net game on the team," as Felske said, volleyed like a Californian should and won her match, 6-3, 6-4, over Dale Kampell. A newcomer to the sixth singles position, freshman Marjorie Solomon began her collegiate tennis career in style, defeating Donna More love...
...album. The last song, "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)" is an all-out exhortation to "move that muscle and shake that fat," and it works. Elton brings in piano, bass, drums, slide guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, congas, strings, and the Cornerstone Institutional Baptist and Southern Californian Community Choir, to join him in an assault on absolute boogie. The music doesn't really go anywhere, but it's fun while it lasts...
...next year's gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said he: "It was not the kind of story I would have run. It's got nothing to do with Brown's ability as Governor." Says Kevin Starr, a fourth-generation Californian who was formerly Afew West's Northern California bureau chief "The mentality there seems to be 'The Ten Best Places to Get Pate When You're Marching with Cesar Chavez.' It's a strange combination of hyperchic and diffusedly leftist outrage at the corruption of America...
...Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest player in the history of the tournament, Tracy convincingly won her first match against Holland's Elly Vessies-Appel 6-3, 6-3. Her curtsy to the Duke of Devonshire might have been gangly legged and selfconscious, but her tennis was graceful and self-confident...
Sara (Author Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...