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...from a 1992 squad that had finished second at Heptagonals (Heps), the season-ending meet which is the rough equivalent of a league championship. By the end of the season all four were out with injuries. In addition, the squad's top freshman, Karen Goetze, went down with a freak ankle injury sustained in a practice session the night before Heps. The squad finished a disappointing seventh out of nine teams (the Ivy League plus Navy) the next...
...Gumped, here is a jaundiced synopsis: Forrest, a nice young man with an IQ of 75 and a freak talent as a runner, survives bullying in his small-minded hometown; survives Vietnam and wins a Medal of Honor; survives a freak storm on the Gulf Coast that wipes out all other shrimpers, making him fabulously rich; and survives (as in outlives) his sweetheart Jenny, a sad, bad girl who nonetheless leaves behind Forrest Gump Jr. Gump also manages to inject himself, Zelig-like, into a fair amount of historical film footage...
Foster's musical talent and the advent of synthesized sounds have made it possible for him to produce a record almost single-handedly. "I'm a control freak," he admits. Sometimes he cuts demos in which he plays everything from "drums" to "cellos" on his computerized keyboards, hires a studio singer to lay down the vocal and then presents the polished product to a recording artist, saying, "Here's what your song could sound like." In fact, he did that with I Will Always Love You for Houston...
Meteorologists described the disaster as a freak occurrence caused when tropical storm Alberto traveled up from the Gulf of Mexico and stalled, dumping torrential rains. Roads, bridges and dams swiftly gave way to the swollen waters of the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers, bringing on a wave of tragedies. In the town of Americus, where 21 inches of rain fell within 24 hours, 16 people perished. Georgians will not soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from...
...that of the infamous Menendez brothers. The latter celebrities are to undergo a ritual which the Simpson case has elevated from legalistic obscurity to event of national import: the "pre-trial" hearing. Why waste time on self-examination when the really crucial question is yet to be decided: Which freak gets top billing in the rogue's gallery...