Word: flukes
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...catch was a fluke-only once before this year had Boucher caught any yellowtail flounder-but New England fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took effect on March 1, extending U.S. jurisdiction over fishing in coastal waters to 200 miles from the old limit of twelve. The law is intended to save from extinction many species of fish-as well as much of the U.S. fishing industry...
...that abruptly transports the audience from heightened realism to broad satire. It is a defect that Slap Shot shares with the current hit Network?a desire to present an editorial so corrosive that aesthetics, questions of form and proportion simply dissolve. The Chiefs win the league championship on a fluke, when their last holdout against the brawling style flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response, thus vitiating the power of an energetic and original...
Officials of the Justice Department's antitrust division could not recall any other boss of so large a business who wound up in prison. But if Stanley Baker, head of the antitrust division, gets his way, Brown's case will be no fluke. Under Baker, a record 90 grand juries around the U.S. will probe charges of price fixing in various industries. Baker, as one of his assistants notes, sought the sentences against the carton executives "to drive home the point that price fixing is a serious crime." The clear implication: some other executives could join...
...participants, and yet reaching its periodical culmination in a choice of great importance. One such choice has just been made, and what is needed in its aftermath is a little sympathy--for Gerald Ford, who spent two years of his life in the White House on a fluke of history, nearly earned the right to remain there, and now will return to Grand Rapids, where he should have been all along; for Jimmy Carter, who spent two years of his life trying to reach the White House, who has finally fulfilled one promise, and who will have many more...
When the Lord Jeffs took a 3-1 lead on a fluke goal 15 minutes into the second frame, the visitors ran out of gas, and Harvard mentor George Ford sent in his substitutes to preside over the final two Amherst tallies...