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Unlike Ruth-chaser Roger Maris and others under journalistic seige, Rose kept both his hair and humor. The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way. "I knew chicken noodle was on Tuesday," he said significantly. But that night an 0-for-4 showing got him away from the specials (asparagus) and back to the basics (vegetable). Ron Robinson, a raw Reds pitcher who last spring had fretted that he wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Pete's Sake, He Cried | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Officials of the South Carolina children's bureau, which handles official adoptions, charge that the insatiable demand for newborn babies and the state's laissez-faire attitude have spawned a new breed of ambulance chaser. These are the "bassinet hounds" who, in some cases, pursue unwed mothers all the way into the delivery room. Complains Francis Lewis, executive director of the children's bureau: "It used to be that we said, 'Here is a child who needs a home.' Now it is 'Here's a childless couple, let's go find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newborn Fever | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...that fails to turn into a driving, enjoyable plot. Zee, a neurotic singer, walks down Columbus Avenue just after her husband has decided to move out. Switching from Zee's short dress and high heels, the camera shifts to Eli's office, where the balding, crotchety, middle-aged girl chaser is advising his friend Martin to "Just be natural about women." Meanwhile Zee, who is still walking, bursts out crying, "I hate walking" in the middle of the street...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Overcooked | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...hard to argue against ice cream--I'm known to eat a good deal of it myself--but the new gelateria gets to me just the same. Gelato may be the perfect chaser for the clam chowder popcorn next door, but do we really want to live with...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: I Scream | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...celebrated woman chaser who bragged to a Playboy interviewer that he photographs nude women. Yet he laments the decline of family values and deplores displays of anatomy and hints of extramarital sex in movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking Up the Networks | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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