Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knocked unconscious. The authorities, with the press repeating the allegation dutifully, blame the demonstrators for hurling missiles at the police. Demonstrators fall too, giving the Clamshell medics a chance to show their stuff. "BP 160 over 90, pulse rapid," one doctor, his white coat emblazoned with a Magic Marker red cross, intones until his patient decides to get up and walk away...
...money. "I've been declared a cardless person," he had said then, pouring ashes from his backyard grill on his head. "I'm a man without a card." He had the haunted look of a traveler condemned to shuttle reservationless between Marriott and Holiday Inn, with no Magic Fingers to strum his backbone...
...premiere miler, there was the frustration of sitting out for an entire season and having to contribute from the sidelines. For many--the more fortunate, healthy members of the track and field squad--there was a new personal best waiting at the GBCs. But for all, it was the magic of the team itself that made this season unique...
...court. After his teammates turned in a lackadaisical first half against the Seattle Supersonics during the playoffs, he delivered "my first-ever locker-room talk. Most of it was a lot of expletives deleted." Whatever the content, it worked; the Lakers won the game by six points. Recalls Magic Johnson, Los Angeles' marvelous rookie guard: "He was E.F. Hutton. Everybody listened...
Albert would be a solipsistically in ward character, mildly insufferable, if it were not for the extraordinary grace and intelligence of Rogin's prose, which some times accomplishes small, splendid feats of magic. At one point he warns the reader: "What follows is tender and complicated." Exactly...