Word: daredevils
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...Crimson began its turnaround by edging Cornell, 1-0, on a leaping header by daredevil midfielder Tory Fair. Harvard then played its best soccer of the season in a thrilling 2-1 victory over Dartmouth...
Well, they sure could have called it Weird. After all, the main characters in this bonkers biopic are two people John Belushi never met during his brief, explosive life: Bob Woodward, the actor's biographer, and John Belushi dead. You have to cherish the daredevil idiocy of a movie whose climax is a parody of Woodward's legendary deathbed chat with CIA director William Casey. The journalist visits the hotel room where Belushi took his fatal overdose and hallucinates an interview with the dying star. "Breathe for me, Woodward!" the samurai comic cries. And it's hard to hate...
...resulting wealth, says Reynolds, ignited the flames of family ruin. Despite the author's wooden narration, he portrays a cast of heirs straight out of Dynasty: wastrels, alcoholics and eccentrics who became entangled in sordid divorces and murky crimes. Patrick's uncle Smith Reynolds, a daredevil pilot, died of a gunshot wound and was deemed a suicide. The author suggests that his uncle's second wife actually did the deed. Patrick Reynolds rarely saw his father, R.J. (Dick) Reynolds Jr., a chain smoker and heavy drinker who married four times and died at 58 of emphysema...
...efforts to reduce inflation. When Colorado Democrat Tim Wirth noted that the Fed seemed to be caught in the midst of a dangerous "high-wire act," Greenspan solemnly replied, "It is." Unless the Administration and Congress can find a credible way to cut the budget deficit, the Fed's daredevil performance will remain the only act in town...
...crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble '89 are coming almost monthly. Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel, will attempt a motorcycle jump over the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace for a PPV event in April, and the supermiddleweight title fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns will be offered over PPV in June...