Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foundering, leaderless squad and suddenly the team catches fire, smashing a different league opponent each week. The quarterback is a hero, adored by fans and sportswriters and second in the nation in total offense. But one Saturday, the hero falls to the turf with a separated shoulder. Eorced to miss the following game, he watches from the sidelines as his teammates lose. True to the script, the signal-caller returns to lead a resounding, regionally televised triumph over the league leaders and cops the first-ever undisputed conference crown the following Saturday with a last-minute victory over The Enemy...
...make it big in show business. But first the nasty leading lady of the show about to open that night, Mona Kent (Susannah Rabb), must be eliminated, done neatly when the public-works projects of the W.P.A. force the play-within-the-play to open on a battleship, where Miss Kent succumbs to sea-sickness. And of course Ruby has to fall in love along the way; one of those shore-leave sailors who always stroll along Broadway (Web Stone) appears just as she faints from hunger to catch her and croon in her ear, "It's not Greta Garbo...
...Budweiser's the sponsor, right, so I say, "Tell me this (adopts gruff Bronx street accent and yells) 'ANOTHER COLD ONE, MISS KHAMBATTA? TWO MORE COLD ONES FOR MISS KHAMBATTA. HEY, BILLY, YOU WANT ANOTHER ONE HERE? SO, BILLY, TELL ME, IS THERE ANY BEER IN OUTTA SPACE?' He was awful...
...been just great. Super. She's a tremendous natural athlete--you don't score all those goals without being really really super. I'm certain we're going to miss her next year...
...where at the time he was considered more leftist than Manley. He held Cabinet posts in both the Labor governments that ruled from 1962 to 1972; as Finance Minister he earned a reputation as a tough administrator, especially in plugging tax loopholes. He and his wife Mitsy, a former Miss Jamaica, have three children...