Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saying "I hardly could miss the ball," Edberg for once displayed the serenity and not just the stoicism of the five-time champion Bjorn Borg. "All of us in Sweden grew up watching Borg in the finals of Wimbledon. Now I've won Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen...
...sure we know how to build the appropriate heat shields," says Oberg. Also, at that speed, the astronauts would have a much smaller "window" for re-entering the atmosphere. "Come in too low, and you burn up," says Oberg. "Come in too high, and you overshoot. You miss the earth, and you'll never see it again." Other plans call for an unmanned cargo ship to precede the manned craft to Mars and for even higher velocities that would cut mission times down to a year...
...pickings are slim for would-be U.S. producers, the diet is considerably more nourishing for audiences. Stargazers can see Eartha Kitt in a revamped version of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies, Wendy Hiller aglow in the American comedy Driving Miss Daisy and, starting next month, Rex Harrison in a revival of The Admirable Crichton. Those with a taste for undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West...
...first-grader greets her visiting grandparents, happily exclaiming, "Come here, sientate!" Her bemused grandfather, who does not speak Spanish, nevertheless knows she is asking him to sit down. A Miami personnel officer understands what a job applicant means when he says, "Quiero un part time." Nor do drivers miss a beat reading a billboard alongside a Los Angeles street advertising CERVEZA -- SIX-PACK...
...sleaze factor to its fullest potential was Bush's. Instead of hurting him, the Reagan Administration's corruption may have actually carried Bush to the nomination over relatively filth-free candidates like Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. After all, if you're under a cloud of suspicion, you miss out on taking on Dan Rather. Is it surprising that the last Republican candidate besides Bush was Pat Robertson...