Word: globe
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...ability to short circuit the intellect with all the subtlety of a file on the teeth. When he tips in the other direction, his short circuits more resemble the random firing of brain synapses and he is in danger, as Tom McGuane says of "being trapped in a globe of his own hallucinatory despair." It's a precarious balancing act, and one which makes Shepard so much more a playwright than a writer of plays. Reading a Shepard script is an exercise in boredom at worst and frustration at best. A bad production, and you leave feeling that terrible wired...
...advertising poster. It is standard Bondage: a cheeky shot of a woman dangling a crossbow in her hand while Roger Moore, as 007, aims a pistol between her calipered legs. While Boston did not go so far as to ban the poster, the editorial Bowdlers at the Globe and the Los Angeles Times deemed the poster suitable for their eyes only and demurely cropped out everything just above the knee. At the Pittsburgh Press, editors actually put a pair of shorts on the leggy lady. Amidst the furor, three models who had posed for the poster went out on their...
When she started, in Switzerland in the mid-1930s, she was Just a Gigolette, one of Seven Beauties singing in a Cabaret. Then Lale Andersen stumbled onto a discarded piece of Great War schmaltz, a soldier's love song called Lili Marleen. As German soldiers swarmed over the globe in 1939, they carried this song with them. Lale became a star-for a time, the darling of the Third Reich -and Lili Marleen the song of her life...
Collins, a columnist with The Boston Globe, somehow moved in on the tennis broadcasting scene just as the sport was exploding with big money and big tournaments in the early 1970s. He gained prominence in a field that had no tradition, so he created one--fill every empty moment of air time with words, any words. His style only brought out the worst in his colleagues through the years, whether they were fellow t.v. "journalists" or competitors-turned-color commentators. Everyone tried to keep up with Bud in the coining of catch phrases and use of silly tennis-chiclingo...
...should end around the seventh or eighth round, and I'll be surprised if Leonard takes even a single round up to that point. Sugar Ray is a good fighter, but Hearns is a great one. What will happen after the fight is heard to say. Maybe, as the Globe says, Leonard will challenge Marvin Hagler. Maybe, as the Post claims, Leonard will retire. But Leonard climbing into the ring for a second or third Hearns fight? After what will happen on September 16, I seriously doubt...