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ITEM: In Boston, the lead singer of the Dead Boys takes a swan dive to the stage floor of a joint called The Rat. He wears a leather jacket and a T shirt decorated with swastikas. He begins to stroke the torn crotch of his jeans with a vibrator. He shrieks, "This is what love...
...last week during two days of discussions with Jordan's King Hussein in Washington, Carter's optimism about Geneva took a dive. Hussein and Carter seemed to work a strange chemistry on each other. The King, who is 41 but has held the Hashemite throne for 25 years, has a long view of Middle East affairs: he was pessimistic about Israel's willingness to make peace. Under Carter's persistent probing-more blunt than Gerald Ford or Richard Nixon had been in similar meetings-the King's pessimism moderated a bit. But Carter...
...wood hit by Gene Sarazen on the par five 15th in 1935. Craig Wood was the leader in the clubhouse and was already accepting congratulations. Bobby Jones had ambled down from the clubhouse just in time to watch Sarazen's second shot take two hops and dive into the cup for a double eagle that enabled him to snatch away the victory...
Somehow, the old kitsch was missing. Oh, Chevy Chase took a dive-and i a giant envelope from a hairy Kongian hand. Marty Feldman smashed a statuette to smithereens. Richard Pryor yelled, "Hey, everybody in Peoria, it's me." But basically, to the chagrin of camp followers everywhere, they played it straight, even to the point of inviting Norman Mailer and Lillian Hellman to give awards. Missing were Bob Hope, John Wayne and most of Old Hollywood; New Hollywood (whose spokesperson increasingly seems to be Jane Fonda) was so in evidence that even onetime McGovernite Warren Beatty observed that...
...death angle, since he suffered a fatal heart attack several months after the picture had been finished). But the evening finally went to a fairy-tale called Rocky, which, like three very dry martinis, makes you feel good. But Rocky takes much longer. Relevance had taken a prearranged dive...