Word: loners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every top player is a loner. You're not a follower. You're a leader," explained Wimbledon Women's Singles Champ Chris ("The Icicle") Evert, 19, after her easy victory over Russia's Olga Morozova. Fortunately, Loner Chris has another leader to lean on: Wimbledon Men's Winner Maverick Jimmy Connors, 21, who demolished Ken Rosewall in straight sets. Jimmy and Chrissie established a record of sorts: they are the first fiancés ever to win at Wimbledon in the same year, and got a big hand when they led the dancing...
After he entered Ohio State University in 1970, Chenault began to change. Recently he had come to be regarded as an oddball and a loner who had few friends and fewer dates. He was a junior majoring in education when he dropped out last December and began venting his increasingly eccentric views through a blaring loudspeaker propped in his second-floor window near the campus in Columbus. Until last week, however, no one took seriously his amplified boast that he was "the baddest ______________mother on the block...
...loner, Springsteen's lifestyle is music. "I love traveling and performing, love being on the road. The thing I don't like is the business side." Home is a rented apartment in Bradley Beach, N.J. If the commotion over his music has sometimes flattered, sometimes irritated him, he shows no ill effects. He remembers calling his mother in California to tell her he had signed a big record contract...
...whorehouses--he refused to let that recognition sink him. He never quit: he took his allegations before a series of Lindsay aides and deputy commissioners and finally broke it to The New York Times. Serpico left the police only after he had already faced the dangers of being a loner on the force and a crusader against the ruling order. He offered public testimony against police (while still recovering from gunshot wounds in the head, incurred in a Harlem narcotics raid); he then sought peace in Switzerland...
...Colleen Dewhurst - whom one hardly expects to find in such company-provides an agreeable cameo as a roundheeled cocktail waitress with a taste for cocaine. The Duke remains amiable and unruffled throughout, but it is a bit troubling to see him poaching so obviously on Clint Eastwood's loner-cop territory...