Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around the lawns and locker rooms of Wimbledon last week connoisseurs were comparing her to the all-timers - Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills Moody, Mo Connolly, King - and speculating, as tennis people do, about how she would fare in dream matches against them. It is part of the respect anyone on the verge of winning this tournament five times gets. But even those who appreciate her no-weakness game tend to overlook the fact that she has come further emotionally than anyone else who has ever played this game...
...Dayton Journal Herald column, he writes about the ordinary upsets at his tri-level home in the bedroom community of Beaverbrook, Ohio. Stewart has not always been one of the dinette set, however. In the beginning, he wanted to be another Jimmy Breslin, but after hanging out in locker rooms, the curly-haired journalist realized ten years ago, "You don't have to write about armpits and jockstraps...
...linked to heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center and who has just published a book on steroid abuse, Death in the Locker Room (Icarus; $19.95). "Any jock who uses these drugs is taking chances not just with his health but with his life...
Laura Farabough's Nightfire, also a California group, provides another low, but without style. Previous productions of this Sausalito company have included Locker Room, which took place in a high school locker room, with the audience seated atop the lockers, and Surface Tension, a water work that toured swimming pools up and down the West Coast. For the festival, Farabough has created another aqueous drama, Liquid Distance/ Timed Approach, which she has staged, so to speak, in the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills High School. Unfortunately, the chlorinated blue water is clearer than her plot, which covers everything...
Before she found her way into the locker room, Pew took time out to talk about the differences between this year's and last year's squads...