Word: heels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, if you're not out on Franklin Street right now, this sports page and the Charlotte Observer's in one hand, and Ken Rapoport's classic tome Tar Heel Basketball in the other, you can forget about snagging a seat at Chapel Hill's favorite watering hole...
Ironically, Walton's fate might easily have been prevented years ago. He was born with high arches and a left heel bone that does not allow his foot to turn out. So when he walks or jumps, the impact is concentrated on the ball of his foot rather than being more evenly distributed. According to his physician and adviser, Dr. Ernie Vandeweghe, a former N.B.A. player, such conditions are often repaired when a youngster reaches adolescence. Says Vandeweghe: "But by that time, Bill was already a pretty valuable commodity, already on his way to stardom. And he never complained...
...other congregations of the Churches of Christ to boycott the advertised products unless the companies agreed to stop sponsoring its hit-listed shows. By mid-June, 6,000 churches had agreed to take part. Says Hurt's literature: "They [the sponsors] are the 'Achilles' heel' of the entire television industry ... The purpose of the campaign is not to take programs off the air, but to insist that they be cleaned up so that they are no longer an insult to decency and [a] negative influence on our young people...
...gnawing beavers, whizzing speedboats, amniotic whirlpools, fancy flights and flights of fantasy. Like Orpheus to his river, Joe eventually succumbs to The Lake. He succumbs to wealth, to fame, success and glory. He suffers only the wrenching pain of a boot strap as it pulls itself over a heel...
...difficult New York interview on the eve of his first Japan tour and third album, "but what I do is write songs and sing them." Nonetheless, inside that denim-jacketed heart, behind those covertly smiling eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music-makers the likes of Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers. Then came Jackrabbit Slim, the 1979 follow-up, a helping of string and chorus-sweetened love songs...