Word: kneecaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's that rustling in the bushes? Who are those tiny green figures scurrying through the twilight? Why did they bite that nice old lady in the kneecap? When did they start multiplying like rabid rabbits? Where will it all end? In movie theaters throughout North America, where these monster-pranksters have every intention of overrunning the opposition and leaving the Hollywood army of would-be summer smashes dazed in their wake. Ugh! Good Lord! Eek! Gasp! Aaarrrgh!. Gremlins is coming...
...McKay avoids the cliches with which so much of television sports is infested, concentrating on small events in time, not the record-setting times in events. His own favorite moments tend to center on individuals like the Japanese gymnast at Mexico City in 1968 who competed with a broken kneecap. "Television has made it possible for the audience to identify with individual athletes," he explains. Every four years, McKay searches for something rarely seen nowadays, something that, ironically, has been lost in part through the very medium in which he works. He looks for people who strive for perfection...
...Huskies' minds Monday night than a Beanpot championship. "They won it for them," said Northeastern Coach Fern Flaman referring to his wife and son. In the past three weeks. Flaman's son has been diagnosed as having a serious and the coach's wife recently broke her kneecap in a fall...
...opted against swimming in the Nationals and underwent exploratory surgery around Christmas of 1980, when Boland found that her kneecap had been badly worn away. Since then, Maureen has not competed, a superb athlete sidelined by a hole in the road...
...have her whole thesis written: LILY PEW women's field hockey, squash and lacrosse--A Walkman tape player; JOE CARRABINO, men's basketball--A 450 SL convertible and a 14-inch vertical leap; TIM PENDERGAST, men's lacrosse--A dinner out; TANIA HUBER women's ice hockey--A new kneecap; CHRIS MITCHELL, men's basketball-Playing time; TRACY KIMMEL, women's ice hockey goalie: Unlimited studio recording time and a hockey sweater; ANITA DIAZ, women's track--A breakfast in bed of bagels, cream cheese, coffee and a newspaper, LIZ WARD, women's ice hockey--A 1000-goal season; MAUREEN...