Word: locker-room
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Political reporters want to retain access to news sources, what sportswriters might call locker-room reentry. Unworried, Broder says, "I'm not looking for social relationships, I'm looking for working relationships." He generally finds that even in Administrations he attacks, "they take you seriously if they see you are seriously interested in getting their point of view and getting information...
...evening (one teammate is having an affair with another's wife, several are involved in municipal corruption, and, of course, there is the standard drunk, the standard failure and the standard terminal illness to grapple with) appear not as home truths but mere dramatic inventions. Finally a stale, locker-room odor begins to arise from a work that has nothing more on its mind than yet another attack on small-town bourgeois values...
Heavyweight Challenger Gerry Cooney quotes its lines with fervor. Olympic Figure Skater David Santee trained to its triumphant sound-track music. Its plot is adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become...
Lucas played that night. Remarkably, word of the locker-room confession did not leak out for two months, but when it did, Lucas and his lawyer met with a Washington Post reporter, and Luke confessed anew. "It started last year when I was depressed about a lot of things," he said. "It's not affecting my play at all. There are a lot of guys who go out on the court all messed up. I'd never do that...
...heavyweight crew coach Harry Parker--who is currently without the services of a manager--echoed Restic's remarks, saying, "Managers are extremely helpful--by arranging all our trips, they allow me to concentrate on my players and the race." Full-time equipment manager and locker-room sage Chet Stone, who works closely with managers throughout the year, said recently. "They make everyone's job around here a lot easier. I really don't know what we would do without them...