Word: heel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hears the music in the nursery or the murmurs of the other babies, stacked up in their double-decker box cribs. She acknowledges no one. But everyone knows Palestine-if not by her blue "Space Patrol" sleep suit, then by the dark brown bruise on her right heel and, of course, by the circumstance of her birth...
Still, Fisher's, or his ghostwriter's, analysis of Liz is acute. She loves combat, he says, and the more Burton insulted her, the more determined she was to bring him to heel: "I had forgotten that Elizabeth never did anything halfway. Her commitments were total. If she saw something she wanted, she went after it until it was hers for keeps." She succeeded, for a decade anyway, with Burton, before they both went on to other marriages. Meantime, Fisher, now 54, has never managed to rekindle his career to the glow...
...Heel spirit does not impinge upon UNC's fine academic environment. Although many other Southern institutions would refute Time magazine's assertion that UNC is the South's best university, remember that Walker Percy, John L. Clive (Kenan Professor of History and Literature), Charles Kuralt, Tom Wicker, and Thomas Wolfe graduated here. Andy Griffith is also among the school's illustrious alumni, and rumour claims that nearby Siler City provided the basis for the legendary town of Mayberry...
Socializing starts early in the week down in Tar Heel, country, where, because the hard-liquor drinking age remains at 21, most students drink beer, primarily Bud and Stroh's. After two solid nights of studying, Sunday and Monday, it's time to begin the Franklin Street circuit. Who can resist. "Lady Lock-in" at Prudy's Tuesday nights, when from eight to ten the management excludes all men while women down peany drafts (that's right) inside...
...life-sized poster of UNC great Phil Ford with the four fingers of his right hand extended high into the air greets the restaurant's clientele. Photographs of Tar Heel sensations (do the names Bob McAdoo, Charley Scott, Mith Kupchak, Walter Davis, Bobby Jones, Al Wood, Billy Cunningham, and Michael O'Koren ring any bells? decorate the walls. And to complete the motiff, sandwiches such as the "McAdoo Big McBurger" and the Kupchak Super sub grace the menu. You don't have to know your basketball to have a good time, but make sure not to confuse Carolina with Carolina...