Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case with a woman lawyer. In the middle of her explanation, she fainted. Cool as always, Hartman signaled for a commercial, checked her pulse, and lifted her onto a couch. Another kind of frisson came when he was interviewing Muham mad Ali, and Ali called him "the Great White Dope" - to the secret delight of some on the staff...
Then there are all those heads-idealized, of course. They still might evoke the original. Yet one is sullen, one effeminate. One makes him out to be a thug, another a dope. In one the chin is feeble. In another the eyes are dazed. The best of the lot is the one from Pella, his birthplace and the center of his father's kingdom. It is based loosely on the 4th century portraits by Lysippos, Alexander's chosen artist. In that head at least are both the athlete and the thinker, the head atilt with speculation...
What Jake saw in a nostalgic nightmare, Martin Scorsese has put on the screen. The Bronx Bull butted his way to the middleweight championship of boxing in 1949. He "fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times I got diabetes." He played rope-a-dope with the Mob. He ballooned to 210 lbs. (from 160) within a year of retiring, was convicted on a morals charge involving a 14-year-old prostitute, and made a comeback of sorts as a road-show Rocky Graziano. Now 59, this sacred monster is canonized and cauterized in Scorsese's searing black and white...
...many consider the impossible: defeating Reagan in his home state. Says Les Francis, Carter's national field director: "We're not spending that kind of money on a whim. The state is winnable." Scoffs Dean Burch, George Bush's top aide: "I think Carter is smoking dope on California." If Reagan should lose California, it would signal a nationwide collapse. Without his home state, Reagan's candidacy is almost unthinkable: it is California or bust. A September survey by Independent Pollster Mervin Field gave him a comfortable lead over Carter of 39% to 29%, with Anderson...
...fights, Holmes extended his string with a masterly display of strategy and tactics. When Ali tried to shuffle out of reach, Holmes angled across the ring, cut off Ali's escape and took him to the ropes. When Ali hoisted his hands to play rope-a-dope, Holmes cunningly reached around his cover with furious hooks...