Word: phenome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday's phenom, today's ho-hum. A few years ago, Richard Pryor was the comic everyman of movies and the top black box-office draw. But the pictures he made at machine-gun pace were too ordinary to sustain his eminence. He was still a star, but in spite of his work, not because of it. Worse, a new black phenom, with just as much on the ball and a better batting average, stole Pryor's thunder. Now he works in the shadows, a batting practice pitcher for All-Star Eddie Murphy...
...former Harvard student and Buddhist monk, with a 168 m.p.h. fastball exploded onto baseball's spring training scene last week as the New York Mets' hottest rookie phenom, according to George A Plimpton '48 in his April 1 Sports Illustrated magazine article...
College scouts were not the only one to notice Bausano as a high school phenom, a Russia, wrestler coach who had defected from the USSR also recognized potential in Bausane...
...teams with a freshman phenom in goal who has allowed only five goals in 13 games, is ranked near the top in the country and is headed for the national tournament...
When Whitley did get caught in a heap of traffic midway through the second half though freshman defender I ori Barry moved in to save the day. The freshman phenom headed out what otherwise would have been a tying UMass goal late in the game...