Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sudden. Reese ignities. Zap. He's hit one too many balls into the tin, and he's completely fed up. No way is this arrogant, snotty kid going to beat him. He screws up his forehead in fury, his eyes flame, his face turns beet red. Not particularly fast, he somehow starts to run down every shot. Not smooth or aesthetically appealing to watch, he somehow knocks shots just out of Benello's reach. By the time Reese has racked up the next three games, his opponent has fled the court and charged through the crowd of spectators with...
...think about it, most of us are somewhere over China. Remember when you were a little kid digging a hole in the sand, and all the adults who walked by told you to keep going and you'd end up in China? We all grew up with these aspects of romance. Did any of those elders ever add that you'd have to scoop out boiling lava when you hit the middle of the earth en route? Of course not. They--like Buffet--were content to nurture and protect romantic ideas without exposing them to reality...
True-to-life first-day scene: Cars fill the Yard at 9 a.m., and families find their kid still won't get the good bed because some people arrive a full day early and get to the dorms by 7.30 a.m. Proctors stand calmly near entryways, checking off names and absorbing effusive admiration for attending an Ivy League school. i must want to be lawyer, no? They must think I write recommendations...
...shielded the President for more than a year. His sputtering economic policies, increasingly apparent insensitivity on civil rights, and vacillating foreign policy-largely shot from the hip-have even made Reagan's admirers begin to reel in disbelief and exasperation. That the press had treated the President with kid gloves, while fully aware of the White House's blunders incoherence, and incompetence now seems a particularly irresponsible error. But at least journalists are finally hungering to expose the President's inability to deal with the nation's very real problems. It's only unfortunate that that eagerness came months after...
...Great Gretzky ("It's embarrassing. If I had my choice, I wouldn't use it") is a straw-haired, blotchy-skinned kid, barely 5 ft. 11 in., barely 165 Ibs., barely 21 years old. He blushes and scuffs his toe a lot. In 65 years only two players had ever scored 50 goals in a season's first 50 games; this year Gretzky scored his 50th goal in the 39th game, and last week he reached the alltime record 77th goal (and the 78th, and the 79th) with 16 games to go. It is more than just...