Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Lester Roloff, 68, fiery fundamentalist preacher whose radio-based ministry financed controversy-ridden homes for rebellious children; when his private plane crashed, also killing four others; near Normangee, Texas. In his homes, Roloff enforced hard-nosed "godlines" (no coffee, newspapers, aspirins or TV), sometimes with whipping and paddling. To...
. . . "The Cultural Situation of the American Writer." Bech is not, as a rule, well received. South American students noisily circulate leaflets to the audience during one of his talks. Bech glimpses a copy: "It showed himself, huge-nosed, as a vulture with striped and starred wings, perched on a tangle...
Before Yaz became venerable, back when he was vulnerable, everything he had was not always enough. "When you have been told at 20 that you will replace Ted Williams, nothing after that is pressure," he says jauntily, but his bony-nosed profile is drawn tight. Rose has been booed everywhere...
Following the workouts under the white tent, pretty girls and children queued up to sit on Cooney's broad lap and have their pictures taken with the bent-nosed Santa Claus. This silly sweet scene every day galled Hilly but delighted Cooney. "Little kids are the best part of being...
Steve Brinkley is a sandy-haired lawyer with the amiably innocent look of a Teddy bear; his wife Jane is a teacher's aide at a nearby school. Together they earn $40,000 a year. They live with their eight-year-old son Peter in a handsomely renovated Victorian...