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Ballesteros supplied the Open with an international flavor lacking since Taiwanese pro Lu Liang Huan labeled as "Mr. Lu" became a gallery favorite in 1971 while finishing second. With an uncanny knack for getting the ball up and down from around the green, Ballesteros during his final round of 74 succeeded in "defying the percentages" as Miller later put it, repeatedly extricating himself after slapping shots into Birkdale's yawning bunkers and unyielding willow scrub rough...
...changed the entire flavor of his character-a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton-inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill. "I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one. It appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing...
...attributed the lack of success in getting renewals to misrepresentation in the promotional letter. "The type of magazine promoted in the mailing pieces suggested articles that would have deeper education content than what was produced taking the issues as a whole," she said. She added that the Harvard Alumni flavor of the magazine was unappealing to national readers and that "this was a difficult problem to overcome...
...generate the same slow magnetism of yore. Football fans pay up to $18 a seat for thrills, chills, shocks and jolts. Baseball fans welcome thrills, too; last year's rousing World Series remains a vivid memory. But for their money they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport to reconcile its players' new clout with the need to keep ticket prices down to a daily digestible level, but then it isn't easy to throw or hit a nice pitch either. Showmen like Bill Veeck and operators like Ted Turner seem...
TALK ABOUT madmen is frustrating. An inquiry into madness is even more so: it is difficult to focus, and there are distinctions to be agreed upon. As examples are amassed and the inquirer's theoretical construct rises, the madness described inevitably assumes a certain flavor and tone. Sometimes there is the circus fascination, fallen from favor in this age of ethics but quite popular in medieval days, where raving lunatics in various aspects of disintegration are portrayed to impress hellish demonology on the mind of the reader. Other times the inquirer insists that his aims are ones of great moral...