Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Howe-Cup went to Yale, but the Ivy title went to Cambridge for the first time in the women's squash team's history...
...Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. "They every one of them steal," one denizen grumbles, and steal they do: money, drugs, a cup of coffee, a shred of strutting self-respect, another minute of free-for-all banter before collapsing in sleep or death...
...Ireland and coming down to dinner on the first night in tennis shorts? Or get a firsthand description of the Ouija board sessions by which James Merrill and a friend have derived the material for three volumes of his poetry ("He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline...
...Yeah," says Pasadena, "I'm married to one of those kind of guys." Pause. "Did you say $100? That seems sort of high." Both women scrub hands blackened from pushing hundreds of coins into slot machines, and then each takes one thin quarter from the paper cup holding her slot-machine supplies and deposits it on the tip plate. An attendant, sweeping together the wreckage of paper products they have left behind, says, "Women don't tip like men. Sometimes I don't take home more than $6 in tips...
...records and all of her dreams have been set at the Olympics. But she has been awakened frequently by nightmares: in 1979 she ran away from the best international 100 and 200 fields, celebrated East Germans Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned to try out for a symbolic team. Ashford posted her world record 100 (10.79) in Colorado last summer to chill the East German runners awaiting her in Helsinki. But she arrived there, as usual, grabbing...