Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard presented four construction models to the Historical Commission, three of which call for the current structure's demolition. The resulting building would contain 50 apartments for graduate students and junior faculty and retail space on the ground floor...
With matters this bad, the only direction in which a real plot can go is down--and this Gillette's does rapidly. Mickey's goods get ripped off, and Bobby is nailed to the floor by an angry biker. Disgusted by the venality of human beings in the city (and without enough money to pay the rent), Bobby and Mickey decide to set up housekeeping in the desert and get back to nature. The traditional home of the American Man of the West...
...flown home, and was making some travel arrangements in a phone booth in Seattle when he looked up to see "a hairy bastard," presumably an antiwar activist who did not like people in uniform, poised to throw a tomato at him. Murphy bolted toward him, knocked him to the floor and sank his teeth into the man's neck as police pulled him away. No charges were brought. Murphy, now pursuing religious studies, said he had never told that story to anyone for 14 years. After a pause, a student rose in the audience and shouted, "Welcome home, John Murphy...
Ewing won the Adolph Rupp player-of-the-year award, though it is possibly just as well that Kentucky's bigoted baron is not around anymore to vote on who can play basketball. As Ewing was introduced for his final college game, a banana peel hit the floor of Lexington's Rupp Arena with a sickening whap. It seemed barely to miss slapping him, though he appeared not to notice. The Washington Post stopped recording this ritual when it ceased being news. "Bananas have been thrown at Ewing in at least ten games this year," Reporter Michael Wilbon says. Illiteracy...
...Hulkster. Billy Crystal got away with it on Saturday Night Live, but Richard Belzer, the pencil-armed host of cable TV's Hot Properties, was not so lucky. Four days before WrestleMania, Hogan was demonstrating a front chin-lock on Belzer, who went limp and fell unconscious to the floor. When he rose, a pool of blood had formed under his head; the comic required eight stitches. John Stossel, a reporter for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, got a rounder basting when he told David ("Dr. D") Schultz, "You know, I think this is fake." His integrity impugned, the humongous...