Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sports measurable by clocks and rulers, no one ever questions the superiority of modern athletes. Baby girl swimmers have left Johnny | Weissmuller in their backwash. An old pivot man like George Mikan would stand up against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about as well as the Four Horsemen would pull their pony weight in a National Football League backfield. Because baseball players appear not to change so much, they present their fans a wonderful illusion of constant values, like .300 batting averages. By this week, the fans should resume arguing over Pete Rose and Ty Cobb, surer than ever that human beings...
...split his spare time between playing baseball and critiquing TV shows. At Yale, where he was graduated with a B.A. in English, he took tutorials with Novelist Robert Penn Warren. Called upon one day to analyze a D.H. Lawrence story, Tartikoff suggested, "Wouldn't it be better if the girl had first seen the guy over here in his other setting, and then met the other person over there?" As Tartikoff recalls the incident, "He stared at me for a moment and said, 'Have you ever thought of going into television?' He was serious...
...Edward, his son's Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather...
...Phillipses decided to cooperate after Immigration officials informed them that a girl they had adopted earlier was an illegal alien. The INS allowed them to keep the child because the parents believed the adoption was legal. Other couples duped by the ring have been traced to eight states from California to New York. Authorities say they will allow these parents to keep their children if they were adopted innocently. The Tijuana ring is believed to have smuggled in nearly as many Mexican infants over the past two years as had come in legally for adoption...
...currently displayed in Moscow shows a grim image of a U.S. monster threatening to rain down bombs from outer space. Overseas, disinformation remains a favorite tactic; the Kremlin rarely overlooks an opportunity to plant a false rumor. While grieving last week over the death of Samantha Smith, the American girl who visited the U.S.S.R. on a peace mission at the invitation of Yuri Andropov in 1983, the Soviet media hinted that her plane crashed as a result of foul play. No lie is too big: the news agency TASS blithely reported last October that the Pentagon was poisoning the Amazon...