Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry grows up; Billy grows old. Sans hair, sans teeth, sans wives, sans everything, Billy Bright wanders from park bench to wheelchair replaying his memories to another burned-out star, Cockeye (Mickey Rooney). But Billy is no screen-size Pagliacci. Instead, he proves to be a garrulous embarrassment who keeps popping up on TV commercials and late-night talk shows. Audiences had thought him long dead; now they wish he were...
Goaltender Rick Metzer, one of the most underrated performers in the East, is gone, and the graduation of forwards Bob Brandt, Mike Ontkean, Rick David, and Dave Sheen, has cost U.N.H. a good deal of its considerable scoring punch. The loss of defensemen Graham Bruder and Mickey Goulet has left coach Charlie Holt with a rebuilding program that might not bring the Wildcats near their 22-5-1 record of last winter...
According to Sports Illustrated, the Band's rendition of the Theme backfired at the BU game early in the year. They quoted BU quarterback Pete Yetten, after BU's 13-10 upset victory, as saying, "When the Band struck up Mickey Mouse it made us a little...
Band director Jim Walker, A.M.T. '63, explained the Band's choice of songs by saying, "We just couldn't think of a last formation, so we did Mickey Mouse. People who take this all so seriously really are Mickey Mouse. Sports writers make these fantasies out of football player's remarks and act as though something like Mickey Mouse really enrages the players. We enjoy...
...There's not much left to be gained from pushing Mickey Mouse. I think we've pretty much finished off the novelty aspect of Mickey," Walker added, perhaps forecasting Mickey's demise...