Word: egghead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing field, the egghead jock can be a source of enlightenment as well as amusement to teammates. Several years ago, when Atlanta Braves Second Baseman Dave Johnson, a mathematician, was playing for the Baltimore Orioles, he gave some valuable advice to Pitcher Jim Palmer. "Jim, you're in an unfavorable chance deviation," said Johnson. When Palmer seemed mystified, Johnson explained that Palmer was minimizing his chance to pitch strikes by trying to hit the corners...
...early fifties, while Monroe was rising through the ranks of hungry starlets to become the most popular blonde in the history of films--her rise included marriages to the two symbolic princes of midcentury America: Joe DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after...
...persuade me to take it. As I suck in the gas, cooler than the air in the living room. I feel giddy but not dizzy, and I laugh a little. It feels like the moment before I passed out in the grass during recess in fourth grade, When Egghead sat on my back and I breathed in and out hard forty times as hard as I could. I think about explaining how it feels, but figure it's too involved for people I don't really know yet. By now, everyone has a balloon...
Lear has the sort of temperament that might be described by Archie Bunker as "hebe Hollywood egghead"-or, if Archie knew the word, compulsive. The only eye in the hurricane of activity that he whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's room for a thorough perusal of the New York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet...
...last episode, you remember, Zira and Cornelius, the egghead chim- panzees who had come back from the year 3000 via a time warp, were hunted down and killed by their human hosts, who were frightened by the prospect of a future world run by apes. In the next installment, to be released later this month, the chimpanzees' destiny is fulfilled anyway, as Zira and Cornelius' son Caesar leads a revolt of the simians, who begin to build their own civilization and await the arrival of Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody...