Word: odder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strange as the sight might seem, Foreman's goal is even odder. At the age of 40, after a full ten years layoff from the ring and about 40 lbs. over his best fighting weight, the slugger is in training once again. His objective -- some call it an obsession -- is to recapture the heavyweight title he lost by a knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Exclaims the ex-champ: "I'm ready, and I'm better than I ever...
...Quayle is not as vacuous as his critics and some of his odder statements ("I'm not a yuppie, I'm a Senator") suggest. He is knowledgeable about weapons systems and deserves praise for his work on the Job Training Partnership Act. His problem is that he has not figured out his limitations or how to overcome them, a process he is now conducting in the glare of the campaign. He is sunnily self-confident and accustomed to the leeway accorded good-looking, engaging men. At the G.O.P. convention, when Republicans were debating whether to dump him from the ticket...
...sounded for his views on Western civilization. What sets Giamatti apart from everyone else who has held a comparable position of authority in U.S. sports is his background. He once made his living as a professor of English and comparative literature, with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance. Odder still, he was at age 40 the youngest person in 200 years to be installed as the president of Yale University, in 1978. (Around the time of his selection, Giamatti made a wry, self-deprecatory remark that seems, in retrospect, premonitory, if slightly off base: "The only thing I ever...
Delaney Smith's basketball roots are odder than one would expect of such a successful coach at a Division I college. In high school, she played six-player, no-dribble basketball, which she termed, "very, very different from the game of basketball." She swam at Bridgewater (Mass.) State College, which did not have a basketball team...
Those were the good old days. Tourists and all kinds of New Yorkers still come to the boulevards and side streets, and the Broadway theater still has its headquarters in the half-mile strip north of 42nd Street. With its theaters, odd shops and even odder people, Times Square remains a singularly exciting place. But the balance between high life and low life did tip for the worse during the 1960s and '70s. Pornography merchants proliferated, and street criminals grew more brazen. Funk and festivity were too often edged out by rattiness and fear...