Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side is Harvard Coach Joe Restic, the old mentor to Bagnoli's young hotshot. It will be Restic's last home game today after 23 years of devotion to the Crimson and a record of just above...
When Restic first came to Harvard in 1971, he was a hotshot fortysomething coach from the Canadian Football League with many unorthodox ideas about how football should be played. Now, as he prepares to leave, his "radical" ideas--such as single-back formations and the importance of a strong passing game--have become the norm in both the college and professional leagues. But Restic is still an oddity in college sports. In this era of "big money" college athletics, Restic has become one of the nation's leading spokespeople for the ideal of the student-athlete and the value...
...chaotic life of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas could serve as a high-concept sequel to The Player, last year's scathing parody of movie industry manners. Fade in: A Hungarian emigre becomes a hotshot newspaper reporter in the 1960s, reinvents himself as a gonzo journalist and gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking...
...doesn't have the stature to demand sacrifice," says Kevin Phillips, author of the new book Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. "These are people who spent Vietnam in Oxford; they are $500,000 lawyers who hire illegal immigrants as baby-sitters; they are hotshot lobbyists. This group has no understanding of the kind of sacrifices made every day by the $26,000-a-year couple in Peoria, Illinois. They don't speak the language of the older generation that fought in World War II or the language of the under-30 generation that hasn...
Until the spring of last year, that is, when I was struggling with freshman life in general. While I was watching March Madness on CBS, a picture of the Michigan team came on. The announcer was touting the Fab 5, the hotshot Michigan starters...