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...first time, how that used to be an impossible Wiffle ball shot from home plate to the back of the house. I jog and count: It's actually only a dozen adult strides. I wasn't much older than Caroline is now when hitting that wall was called a homer...
DEFINING MOMENT The latest Oxford English Dictionary has a new batch of entries, among them Homer Simpson's famous...
...Connor's performance remade that most stable of archetypes, the TV Dad. He prefigured Homer Simpson and Al Bundy; he took Ralph Kramden out of the realm of buffoonery and carried him to his logical extreme; he took the omniscient, benevolent TV dad of the '50s and exploded that figure as irrevocably as a gunpowder-stuffed tobacco pipe. Sure, this was a slap in the face of conservatives, who chafed at the show's Norman Lear liberalism. But the O'Connor's genius was that he played the part well enough to discomfit ideologues on the left too. Archie Bunker...
...this strain of modesty - sometimes even false modesty - is becoming rarer and rarer in American life. Braggadocio and trash talk are the rule these days. Once upon a time an athlete who hit a homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth would say, "Aw, I was just lucky to hit that curve." But Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath changed all that. With Ali's "I am the greatest" speeches and Joe Namath's confident predictions of victories, sports etiquette was altered forever. In the NBA finals, Shaq pounded his opponents in print as much...
...second game, a three-run homer by Lentz-his second of the day-gave Harvard a 5-2 lead after seven and a half innings of play. That seemed to provide all the run support necessary for junior starter Justin Nyweide, who was cruising along just as he had done all season. But Nyweide tired in the bottom of the eighth, and Dartmouth's Brian Nickerson connected for a three-run homer that tied the game at five. A solo homer by Dartmouth's Mike Levy in the tenth off of Harvard senior John Birtwell-who had come...