Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tracy Austin's pigtails were disheveled as she rushed from the locker room to the telephone. "Tracy, this is Jimmy Carter," said the voice on the other end. "I just watched you on television, and you were wonderful." Jimmy even invited the high school freshman from Rolling Hills, Calif., to the White House if she finds herself in Washington. It was only her due. As the youngest tennis player ever to play at the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, the 14-year-old with the wide grin and mouthful of braces was everybody's favorite. She easily overpowered...
...first floor of the Indoor Athletic Building the day after Labor Day, and began exchanging; warm greetings with her friend and office mate Stephanie Walsh, coach of the women's swim team. The two immediately began discussing when Walsh and her team would be moving into the new locker facilities in the soon-to-be-completed Phase I of the athletic complex being constructed across the river at Soldiers Field...
...such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap's desire to lather on the sex that lands the series in hot water but its insistence on isolating sex from humanity that makes it look dirty...
...first phase of the complex, which is the first major sports construction at Harvard since the '30s, will cost $17 million and will include a track and tennis hall, a swimming pool and women's locker facilities. Stage Two will include a $5 million hockey arena, auditorium and Varsity Lounge Club complex, a new gymnasium and renovation of existing facilities...
...Many such cases clearly fall beyond the frontier of the ridiculous. It is amazing, if laughable, that a young woman in New York City charged sexist discrimination when the Yankees turned her down for a job-bat girl-that would have required her presence in the men's locker room. And where, if anywhere, are the merits of the argument advanced by the lefthanded postal clerk in Kentucky who charged that the U.S. Postal Service discriminated against southpaws by setting up its filing cases for the convenience of righthanded clerks...