Word: gopher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet. They were counting up Appling's 75 years. As far as anyone could remember, he is the oldest player to hit a home run in even a quasi-major-league game. A surprised Warren Spahn, 61, the former Milwaukee Brave pitching ace who served up the gopher ball, confessed, "I didn't figure Appling could even hit that far." Said Appling, who these days coaches batting for the Atlanta Braves' minor league teams: "I guess these young fellows will listen...
...most of our callers thought homosexuals and people from Jupiter were behind it all." In 1975 he moved to Los Angeles and began writing and performing comedy. After exposure on Mary Tyler Moore's 1978 variety show ("The producer kept wanting me to dress up in a gopher suit and dance"), Letterman won bookings on The Tonight Show, first as a guest and then as a frequent guest host. In 1980, when Johnny Carson threatened to quit his show, Letterman was often mentioned as most likely to succeed. Like Steve Allen, whose syndicated talk show...
They have names like Charlie Horse, Chaps. Mr. McNasty's, Outlaws. Cody's, Dallas, Lone Star Cafe, San Antone Rose.'Silver Saddle, Gopher Gulch and Wild Wild West. The sound of their music is country, and the cut of their outfit is cowboy. Country-and-western nightclubs are riding high. In towns and cities from New Paltz, N.Y., to Carmichael, Calif., and North to South, there are now countless sagebrush saloons, corralling urban buckaroos with lively rustic dancing, good ole buddydom and a frontier atmosphere that may owe more to hype than history but is infectious nonetheless...
...Sherwin-Williams sample book and outrages the gentry at the local country club with such reflections as, "You look at that kid, you know why tigers eat their young." Rodney must compete for attention in the film with alumni of Saturday Night Live and one mechanical gopher. He draws more laughs than the TV kids and chews up at least as much of the screen as the rodent...