Word: clay
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...regain from Steffi Graf. They / stayed away because the slow brick-dust surface in Paris rewards tactics that are entirely different from what works on the fast and often bumpy grass at Wimbledon. With only two weeks between the tournaments, there was too little time to shift gears. Clay-court players typically stay back near the baseline and trade shots until an opponent makes an error. Grass-court players rush the net and smash unplayable returns low along the sidelines. On clay there is always one more chance to win the point; on grass it's now or never...
Boston Globe political cartoonist Paul Szep calls him the Andrew Dice Clay of Massachusetts politics. Columnist George Will says he is the most interesting candidate in America this year. The specter of the 63-year-old bantam president of Boston University occupying the Governor's office terrifies many Bay State residents. But it exhilarates others, who believe a humorless political outsider performing triage on moribund state government can restore it to fiscal health. Either way, John Silber, who on June 2 ensured his place on the ballot for Massachusetts' September primary, makes incredible theater...
...routines. Last September, after a four-letter appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards, he was banned from the channel for life. He was tapped as SNL's guest host, according to insiders, only after other candidates (including Kyle MacLachlan of Twin Peaks) were not available. The producers defend Clay's appearance, however, as being in SNL's tradition of adventurous comedy. Says producer James Downey: "We don't feel we're endorsing everything he's ever done by having him on this show...
...unilateral manner in which she did it that offended people," says executive producer Lorne Michaels. (Dunn has only two shows left on her contract, and is not expected to return next season.) But Dunn emotionally defends her move. "I think it is morally wrong to provide Andrew Dice Clay with a legitimate arena," she says. "This man is a hatemonger...
Throughout the brouhaha, Clay (who will star in the summer film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane) maintained his customary off-camera swagger. Commenting on Dunn's walkout, he told Entertainment Tonight, "I think she's just doing this because I am the hottest comic in the world today." Not true, but for one week he came awfully close. Alas...