Word: phenomal
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...fame that he would rarely leave the protection of his hotel room when he was on the road. At the same time, as the most popular corporate spokesman in America, he was stuck in the persona that marketing wizards had created for him: the smiling, aw-shucks athletic phenom whom you would gladly have over to your house for a breakfast of champions...
...performs in one game or during a single play can define an entire career. Sheryl Swoopes will be remembered for her 47-point performance last week as she led Texas Tech to the national basketball championship. Forgotten was Swoopes' 31-point semifinal game and career as a high school phenom. In the men's championship, Chris Webber of Michigan scored a team-leading 23 points, and in the game's dying moments had possession of the ball. Instead of sinking the winning shot, he mistakenly called an illegal time-out, allowing the opposing North Carolina Tarheels to hold their winning...
Oscar sure-thing actress, most touts would say. The English star of Howards End, the bride of all-everything show-biz phenom Kenneth Branagh, is an odds- on favorite to win Best Actress. And an Academy Award is Hollywood's certification of radiance. If the movie industry gives Thompson an Oscar next Monday evening, it will show it recognizes a potentially great movie lady in spring bloom...
This green new season, the winner so far is Kevin Baker's first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming. This one ends the way a baseball story should: three and two, two out in the ninth, legend at bat. It starts with a young phenom, a rangy, unsmiling white kid named John Barr, who turns up in the shabby locker room of a Class A team in the West Virginia coalfields. He hasn't played organized ball. He doesn't even own a set of spikes...
...just a question of timing." Ask a hawk how it flies. But because Barr is unexplainable, there's a lot of time for lazy, raunchy, cow- flopping baseball talk. Ricky Falls, a black outfielder who plays alongside Barr and is as much of a friend as the phenom can accept, tells most of it. Falls and the rest of his teammates, except for Barr, lead their league in dalliance with the baseball annies who show up in the team hotel after away games. The players are prodigious sexists, though so are the annies, and nobody knows it better than Ellie...