Word: dan
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...With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles
Bill Clinton is a canny player of political poker. In criticizing movies for their grossness, as he has in the wake of Littleton and other teen tragedies, Clinton is playing his Dan Quayle card. It's not the wrong card, but it is a low one. You can ask for movies to be gentler, a tiny bit more attentive to the power of the repeated image over the young. But after criticizing what's there, think about what's missing. Can we please have a little grandeur and depth in movies? Not of armies on parade or edifying soap operas...
...friend's Chinese restaurant in Seattle, Lee got a job teaching the Wing Chun style of martial arts that he had learned in Hong Kong. In 1964, at a tournament in Long Beach, Calif.--the first major American demonstration of kung fu--Lee, an unknown, ripped through black belt Dan Inosanto so quickly that Inosanto asked to be his student...
...coming-out party. Or you could cite the three MVP awards, the 10 Pro Bowl games, the unfathomable record of touchdown passes in 47 straight games (people come closer to Joe DiMaggio's streak than to this one: next best after Unitas is Dan Marino, with 30). But Unitas' influence--vast and beyond challenge--is this: he was the first modern quarterback in a sport that the quarterbacks have owned ever since...
...Sophomores Dan Saken (1-0, 3.10 with a .205 batting average against), Mike Dryden (1-2, 3.66) and John Franey (0-0, 4.05) threw substantial innings in long relief and spot-start roles, and could jump to the weekend four...