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Because the biggest, greatest and best are tossed about so easily in sports, like footballs in the Miami rain, the most articulate superlative left may be just a gasp changing to a sigh, such as Doug Flutie brought to college football last week. The most cuddly player in history, or at least since Eddie LeBaron, appears about to run away with the Heisman trophy. Mindful that there have been stirring football finishes for 100 years, and rip-roaring games the equal of Boston College's 47-45 victory over Miami, it can be fairly stated that never have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Little Trophy Comes to Life | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...hands bound. Summoning Corday to his side, he provides her with a whip and drawls: "And even now I should like to have this beauty here, who stands there so expectantly, and let her beat me while I talk to you about the revolution." The audience and other inmates gasp in horror and anticipation. Sade proceeds to crumple, groan and writhe on the floor, creating a sensation but garbling every word of his speech...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

...Olympic Gateway" was unveiled at ceremonies outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a gasp went up from the crowd of spectators. The onlookers' response was as much a reaction to the size as to the subject of Robert Graham's 25-ft.-high, 10-ton, $250,000 sculpture. The two towering figures were nude and, in the current phrase, anatomically correct (if that term applies to bodies that have no heads or feet). Two real Olympic athletes posed for the statues. Their torsos will now be well and fully known to those who pass under the arch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 25, 1984 | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Hart's last gasp may be to join forces with Jesse Jackson against Mondale. In several states, Hart and Jackson operatives are cooperating to elect more delegates and gain seats on the credentials and rules committees at the convention, where they can press charges that Mondale manipulated or evaded party rules to garner more than his fan" share of delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Call, and Out Reeling | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...kneecap? When did they start multiplying like rabid rabbits? Where will it all end? In movie theaters throughout North America, where these monster-pranksters have every intention of overrunning the opposition and leaving the Hollywood army of would-be summer smashes dazed in their wake. Ugh! Good Lord! Eek! Gasp! Aaarrrgh!. Gremlins is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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