Word: freak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expressions flash on and off her face in milliseconds. Plotting the crime with her former brother-in-law (who turned her in to the police before it could be carried out), she keeps bursting into giggling shrieks, a schoolgirl titillated by the brazenness of her own amorality. A control freak to the end, she demands instructions from the detectives arresting her on what to wear to jail. "God," one of them sighs, taking a long puff on a cigarette, "I miss drug busts...
Less than a minute into the game, Cohagen collected the puck to the right of Catamount goalie Christian Soucy, and took dead aim at the far corner. His shot was just slightly off; although the shot beat Soucy, the goalpost rejected it, and a freak rebound deposited it right back to Cohagen...
...Tomassoni would quickly tell you, that is the future and this is now. Big Green Captain Peter Clark struck the telling blow seven seconds into the third period--his freak shorthanded goal put Dartmouth ahead to stay in what would be its first win over the Crimson since 1981, a span of 23(!) games...
That last prognosis is, alas, faulty; Jackson's life has never been normal. For a celebrity of his magnitude, to be seen is to be smothered, to be loved is to be abused, to be a star is to be a freak. His childhood story is as poignant for what he says he missed ("slumber parties") as it is pathetic for what he endured. During rehearsals, he recalled, he would look out and "see all the children playing . . . and it would make me cry." Before a tour of South America, "I hid, and I was crying while I was hiding...
...happen in hockey, a freak call turned the momentum back the Crimson's way. A Big Red "too many men on the ice" penalty was converted with marksman's precision--laser-sighted passing got the puck on the stick of sophomore Derek Maguire, who rifled a shot with Al lafrate speed and Ray Bourque's accuracy past Skazyk to give the Crimson the lead for good...