Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...route to a community-theater production of The Pirates of Penzance, but convinces the incredulous Peluce of his credentials by whisking him off to Egypt, 1450 B.C., where they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where they peek in on a couple of querulous Wright brothers and help get them flying. The youngster, of course knows all about history, while the oft-addled time traveler ("Smokin' bats-breath! This isn't 1492!") makes up in grit what he lacks in gray matter...
This week Callahan, 36, goes behind the scenes of another sports story that is not truly a sports story at all: the football strike. Referring to the days when a strike was only a pitch, Callahan says: "The real world should of course peek in over the outfield fences in order for there to be perspective. But recently, lawyers, accountants and even narcotics agents seem to be storming those fences. There is a lot more sports news on the front page these days. Nobody laughs enough in sports now, including the people writing it. There are a lot of cranky...
...does these bold things in business, puts everything he has on the line. The pressure can get almost unbearable. The way he reacts is to get loud and hyper and irritating. The nervousness comes out in this compulsive attraction to women. If a pretty girl walks by, I might peek out of the corner of my eye. When Ted is in one of those pressure-filled moods, he is likely to jump out and follow the pretty girl down the street...
...Baptist, Margo Goddard, now 71, became the pageant's first nude in 1936 but swore she would never pose again after the organizers forgot to build her a dressing room. "I had to hide behind a neighbor's garage," she recalls. "The stagehands kept running over to peek...
...fighting is hot, but the staging is horrific. One worries more about the actors than about friend or foe. Part of the blame rests with the set. A conundrum at best, it consists of three-tiered automatically movable towers of ill-assorted lum ber, through which the actors peek out like birds in wooden cages. During the battle scenes these towers rumble about the stage firing off errant fusillades, al most running down the soldiers as if they were pedestrians...