Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forward Cheryl Miller of U.S.C., America at last has a player who can dunk and who has the elbows-out style to say, and mean, "In your face." Men and women alike pay her a compliment that even feminists could approve: in the words of her friend Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers, "That lady plays like...
...longer before he begins to fall toward the water. Quickness is the special talent of divers; their spins and somersaults are conjuring tricks that confuse the eye. Louganis alone is able to go beyond such dazzle to a majestic slowness that is no trick, but true magic. The most ignorant of spectators sees Louganis go off a springboard and thinks, "Oh, that's what it's all about." The experts are awed...
Pullaway swimsuits, Ali's magic and the Iron Hammer...
...hauled out a fishing-tackle box that contained his magic tricks. That is his ritual these days. He waved a black wand. At his cry of "Hah!" it turned into a red flag. "Pretty good?" A white cone snapped into life as a handkerchief. Balls appeared and vanished. A dime disappeared into a penny...
There were more tricks, very often the same one over again. After he had performed a trick three times, Ali showed how it worked. He is not supposed to do this-very much against the magicians' code. He has been dropped from the Magic Castle, the official magicians' club. Ali pulled off a fake thumb. He explained: "It is a sin in my religion to deceive people." He has almost as much fun explaining the tricks as he has doing them...