Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh Fish had style and guts, and guitarist Link Wray's fast riffs and shouts of "yeah!" complemented Gordon's howl too. It faltered only where Gordon gave up the fast boogie beat for schmaltzy, over-dubbed slow tracks...
...sunny Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
...would be mine. I wrote another script... No longer were we doing a musical about a paraplegic cabdriver who falls in love with a tollbooth collector at the Lincoln Tunnel. Somehow, inexorably, because there's no business like show business, the musical had turned into the story of a fast-food-chain heiress who falls in love with a Marine corporal during the Boxer Rebellion...
...first to fail is Luckett. At Ohio University he finds himself unable to live up to the oversized Bridgeport reputation. "He was the fast gun in town," writes Jordan, "grown tired of proving himself, trying to sustain his image by bluster instead of performance." Drafted by the Detroit Pistons after a round of mishandled negotiations, the disillusioned Luckett boots his chance and gets cut from the team. Oleynick stars at Seattle University, then slides into angry oblivion after a season with the SuperSonics. McLeod, the only one of the three to finish college, is robbed of his chance at glory...
...pages of finished copy a week. Says he: "I'm the world's slowest writer. I write each sentence three times before I go on to another." But Jordan, who admits that he failed as a pitcher because, among other reasons, he was "always trying to gel fast balls by heavy hitters," cannot speed up. There is no reason why he should. In the sportswriters' league, he can go a long way on style and control...