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...much-heralded Multiflex. White has the most experience--he backed up Chuck Colombo (last year's first starter) in three of the first four games. In practice after the fourth, a blood clot swelled up his arm, knocking him out for the rest of the year. White is the flashiest of Harvard's signal-callers, with good speed and a strong arm. At 6-ft., 2-in., 185 lbs., he's got the size. Vecchi is three inches shorter and has never appeared in a varsity game. Kouvelas (6-ft., 1-in., 185 lbs.) saw limited action...
...flashiest men's player was Jordan, the 6-ft. 6-in. University of North Carolina senior who has won six awards designating him America's best collegian. Born to dunk, he penetrated the zone defenses of opponents to slam at least one goal in each of the eight games. In the first half against hapless Uruguay he hit three dunks and his teammates had three more, vs. eight total field goals of any kind for the Uruguayans. He also hit from outside: in the preliminary game against Spain, he widened a narrow U.S. lead with...
Charles Bluhdorn was one of the earliest and flashiest corporate conglomerateurs, a master of the unfriendly takeover. Starting with a small auto-parts company in 1958, he assembled an incredible array of disparate businesses into Gulf & Western Industries (1982 sales: $5.3 billion). Bluhdorn eventually bought some 100 companies large and small, ranging from Paramount Pictures to publisher Simon & Schuster to New York City's Madison Square Garden. In one six-year period, he brought 80 firms into what became jokingly known as "Engulf and Devour." Bluhdorn died in February at 56 after a heart attack, and his successors...
...audience has created half a dozen outsize hits and made this the hottest season in U.S. film history. Records have been shattered at the box office. Biggest opening weekend for a movie: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (June 4-6). Biggest opening two weeks: E.T. (June 11-24). Flashiest streak for the industry: the past six weeks, every one of which earned $100 million in the U.S. Moviegoers were still lining up to see Rocky III ($75 million in six weeks), Conan the Barbarian ($39 million in eight weeks), Spielberg's suburban gothic chiller Poltergeist ($39.5 million...
...sheer cleverness, the flashiest section of Kim's text is his discussion of the linguistic equivalent of the calligraphic inversion--the palindrome, a word or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. Starting with the most familiar type of palindrome, at the letter-level ("Able was I ere I saw Elba" is the best known of these), Kim goes on to write about word-palindromes (his example is "So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so") and, most fascinating of all, phonetic palindromes, which sound the same run backwards through a tape-recorder ("we revere you" and "ominous...