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...Lakers' success is the result of a brilliant front office; general manager Jerry West orchestrated Shaquille O'Neal's signing brilliantly, trading away Anthony Peeler and George Lynch to Vancouver in order to free up the necessary money under the salary cap. The recent trade of Cedric Ceballos to Phoenix for Robert Horry underscored West's place as the NBA's top executive...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: A Tale of Two Franchises | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

Kansas State was usually a major underdog in the league, sometimes not even predicted to come within 30 of certain other Big Eight teams (e.g., Kansas in the Danny Manning Years, Missouri in the Anthony Peeler years...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Words of Wissman | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

...Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...interviewing sources and collecting anecdotes. When glaucoma was diagnosed and eyedrops required every two hours, Maria bought a tiny Louis XV timepiece that tinkled an alarm every two hours. Yet she loved nothing better than combing Woolworth's for such "bargains" as a lemon squeezer or potato peeler. A friend remembered a lunch at Claridges during which Maria proudly produced her latest finds. The Callas jealousy was legendary. The sight of her beloved Visconti, who was homosexual, merely talking with Leonard Bernstein sent her into a rage. Yet she did not always take herself seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grandest Diva | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

fingers of a potatoes peeler...

Author: By Christina Starobin, | Title: For Robin | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

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