Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wears on, one can tell the time by the edginess in the air in the Huntley-Brinkley newsroom. David is supercool, strolling occasionally from his private office to flip his copy onto the producer's desk. There are three echelons of editors, but none of them lays a glove on Brinkley's stuff. At 6:20 p.m., he heads for the studio three flights up. Huntley wears makeup. Brinkley never does. Generally, during the Huntley or filmed items and the commercials, Brinkley is still sandpapering his own prose and cutting it to size (he delivers only about...
Bruce Durno made a save on the first shot, but lost his stick at the corner of the cage. He made two more saves without his stick before Pettit whipped a shot into the upper corner past Durno's glove hand...
Lamar blames the high-handed recruiting practices of many colleges for the sport's demise. "Golden Glove Champions with as many as 100 bouts under their belts would be placed in the ring with inexperienced fighters," he says. Serious injuries rarely occurred, but spectators and officials became disturbed at the one-sided affairs...
...between the covers of a bestseller, Portnoy relives his adolescent masturbations. Boy Scouts, for example, will find the novel considerably more informative on the subject than their official handbook. He describes how he used his sister's unlaundered brassiere, his windbreaker on a bus, and even his baseball glove while sitting in the balcony of a burlesque house. But the more he discharged, the greater became his guilt. It was a vicious cycle that led him into his psychological ghetto of lust and shame...
...Chief Blue Meanie. Edelmann's out right inventions came from everywhere -including the unconscious. He thinks he may have got the idea of the shark-stomached Snapping Turtle Turks because of a Turk he knew who once forced an indigestible Turkish meal on him. He considers the Flying Glove an apt symbol of evil, since "gloves are worn by criminals and therefore stand for action in a secret, malevolent way." He feels that his inclusion of the mechanical soccer players in the Eleanor Rigby sequence was inspired by his loathing of the game at which his father used...