Word: montana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Football League quarterbacks were ringed in a battle royal, wouldn't these two be the ones left standing at the end? That roughly describes the process of the past four long and occasionally languorous months, during which Marino's Dolphins lost only two games and Montana's 49ers merely...
...words, but a good description of the coming one is that Miami's fabled coach, Don Shula, and San Francisco's brainy Bill Walsh will be secondary figures Sunday at a new stop, old Stanford Stadium. This is the sophomore Marino's Super Bowl essentially, since Six-Year-Man Montana had one three years ago all his own, a special season that Defensive Coach Chuck Studley has particular cause to review. "In my opinion," says Studley, formerly of the 49ers, currently of the Dolphins, "Montana is the master of the big play. Every time we needed it, 20 eyeballs would...
...MORNING STAR: CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Evan S. Connell. An unconventional, highly evocative retelling of the celebrated military disaster in southern Montana by a novelist turned historian...
...five months the two mountain men, Don Nichols, 53, and his son Dan, 20, had eluded lawmen in the remote Montana wilderness near Bozeman. Many residents figured that the fugitives, wanted for the July kidnaping of Kari Swenson, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, and for the murder of a man who helped rescue her, had fled the frigid region before the onset of winter. But not Sheriff Johnny France, who had attended the same high school as the elder Nichols. "I'm a mountain man too," he insisted. "It will take one to catch...
...Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy; art can't. That's why I've always preferred it." Then just about everyone shows up in Montana, where Louisa falls for General George Armstrong Custer, and Charlotte dallies with a Dietrichesque saloon singer who is really a man. They all die at Little Big Horn and go to heaven. And in the wink of a REM, the dream is over...