Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bill Waterson's strip about a hyperactive kid and his overactive imagination is a neo-comic strip. It has all the conventional characters--suburban parents, a smart-aleck kid, a female foil and a school bully. It's wrapped in a clean, cute art style. And it's funny...
...roommate this spring, Abbott drew Rick Turner, the bullpen catcher, who partnered Angels outfielder Devon White through the Pioneer League but never made it past A ball himself. "As a kid, I used to hang out at the stadium," Turner says. "Now I'm a fan who gets to put on a uniform. It's not that I have visions of a comeback. I guess I dream of being a coach." Into the night, he and Abbott explore the minor leagues and the various levels of dreaming...
...dramatic events took their toll on Lorenzo. "I'm not going to kid you by saying that some of those efforts haven't hurt my family and me," he said last week. "They have." Lorenzo maintains that he has done everything in his power to prevent Eastern from folding. He recalls the options that former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman described for the airline in 1986: "Fix it, sell it, or tank it." Unable to fix it, Borman sold it. As the bankruptcy court now begins to address the formidable task of putting Eastern back together again, Lorenzo was facing...
...Dale Brown will make me mayor of New Orleans if I help LSU reach the Final Four. Billy Tubbs will hire me as the new football coach of Oklahoma if I give the Sooners the NCAA title. I've had a tough day, kid. This better be good...
...hold it, kid, who do you think I am? John Thompson would hunt me down. You're talking about a team that might win the championship, if I let them...