Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard times of Jackie Robinson. Signs along the way: at Providence College, EWING CAN'T READ; at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, THINK EWING! THINK!; in Philadelphia's Palestra, EWING IS AN APE. When Ewing was introduced there someone in the crowd tossed a banana peel onto the court. T shirts and buttons have been manufactured bearing the slogan: EWING KANT READ DIS, which is also a recurring chant at the games. Not surprisingly, Patrick Ewing, 20, has had a few fights this year. Racism is not surprising. It pervade sports and life. But the overtness...
...will keep trying to prove he is not the most decent soul south of the 38th parallel. Winchester will open another picnic basket from Mater and savor caviar on a tongue depressor. Father Mulcahy will smile and sigh. Trapper will somehow keep his balance on that second-banana peel. Hot Lips will practice her yoga and do her nails. Henry will accidentally impale himself on a hypodermic needle. Hawkeye will wonder at the insanity of it all, and wonder too whether he is part of the problem or the solution. And Sherman Potter, who has seen it all before...
There he quickly learned English, finished high school in a year and a half, and relearned the ways of civilization. Ruefully, he recalls his reaction when a boy teasingly slipped a banana peel in his pocket: "I swung a Landsberg jailhouse punch at him," acting "as if he wanted to kill [me]." But Pisar had for gotten how to apologize. "I had been in hell too deeply and too long. The next day presented him with two pounds of bananas...
...Hackett, 50, of the St. Louis police force, you enlist that myopic master of outrageous disguise from Middlesex, England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins to peel the blue to reveal a black matador outfit trimmed with gold sequins, a gold belt and a pink sash, and his true identity for more than a decade: Elton John, 35. The crowd gets its man, but the police lose a future New Centurion. Says Hackett wistfully: "He looks pretty...
DIED. Joseph Peel Jr., 58, Florida municipal judge convicted in 1961 of helping to murder a superior judge who was threatening to reveal Peel's corrupt practices on the bench; of cancer; in Jacksonville. Peel denied having his accuser weighted down and thrown into the sea from a rented boat. But on his deathbed he owned up to knowing about it: "I'm guilty of not using my influence to stop what was going to happen, and I could have...