Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their lissome 5-ft. 8-in. ace, the Chinese tennis team scored an upset victory over the Japanese in the first round of the 32-nation Federation Cup in Santa Clara, Calif. In the second round, however, as expected, West Germany beat China. The team disappeared from the competition. And Hu Na, 19, disappeared from the team. She was, in fact, defecting to the U.S. For American immigration officials. Hu's decision put the ball in their court with a tricky bit of backspin, since approval of her request will imply a certain level of political persecution back home...
...celebrity, famous above all for being famous. He is not so much renowned for his achievements as his achievements are renowned for being his. He became "an American folk hero," a characterization he embraces, as a once successful, twice beaten and now retired yachtsman in the America's Cup, scarcely a sporting event to figure in barroom betting. He has also been a regional billboard magnate, the owner of a newly thriving but previously cellar-dwelling baseball team and a somewhat more reliable basketball team, and the licensee of a non-network-aflfiliated UHF television station in Atlanta...
...House and Conversation in the Cathedral. The War of the End of the World, an untranslated novel of a 19th century peasant uprising in Brazil, is currently a bestseller in Spain and South America. His plays, criticism and topical articles appear regularly, and he recently wrote about the World Cup soccer matches for Barcelona's La Vanguardia. Once a supporter of Castro's Cuba, Vargas Llosa now campaigns against totalitarian regimes of the left and the right. He is a backer of Poland's Solidarity movement and a former president of the P.E.N. club, the international writers...
Italy 3, West Germany 1. It was the single most significant soccer score in 44 years for the Italians, whose team had just won its first World Cup since 1938. But the victory was surely sweetest of all for the club's champion striker, Paolo Rossi, 25. He had returned to the sport just two months earlier, after a two-year suspension when he was implicated in a betting scandal. Scoring six goals, Rossi displayed an almost mystical artistry with foot and ball that belied earlier fears. "I'd been morally depressed for so long," he said...
...slammed to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Chris Evert Lloyd, 27, in the women's final. The victory offered a bonus: $500,000 for winning the first three tournaments in the Playtex Challenge (the other two were the U.S. Indoors and the Family Circle Cup). Centre Court matters concluded, the Wimbledon governing body-which had refused McEnroe membership last year as punishment for his superbrat behavior-issued a final decision: "The committee of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club announce that Mr. J.P. McEnroe has been elected an honorary member of the club...