Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McMahon, who gave Chicago a 7-6 lead with a one-yd. dive in the first quarter, was knocked out of the game with a strained right knee early in the second quarter. Mike Tomczak and Jim Harbaugh were ineffective as his replacements...
Fryar outran Vestee Jackson down the left sideline and caught the ball at about the Chicago 45-yard line. He avoided a tackle near the 30 and scurried into the end zone just 18 seconds into the game. It was Fryar's longest catch of his career, as well as Flutie's longest NFL pass. New England kicker Jason Staurovsky missed the extra point...
...week Michael Gipson did not dare to leave the three-room apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their infant son in Rockwell Gardens, the public-housing project with the highest crime rate in Chicago. Gipson rightly feared that the Chicago Housing Authority would throw him out because his name was not on the apartment's lease. His solution: marry his girlfriend and become an official tenant...
...GRAPES OF WRATH. John Steinbeck's inflamed novel of the 1930s Dust Bowl migration becomes a ruthlessly unsentimental play-with-music by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe...
When Callenbach began researching the book, he recalled a work he had read while a student at the University of Chicago, Science and Sanity, in which author Alfred Korzybski talked about man's capacity for "non survival" behavior. "He used the term largely in a social sense, but it seemed applicable to a wide range of things that we started doing in this century and that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now persist even when circumstances have changed and the habits have become self-defeating." Callenbach mentions things like nuclear plants and chemical fertilizers that...