Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Dolphins won the American Conference championship game, strafing Pittsburgh 45-28, Marino's final interview was with former Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw near midfield of the Orange Bowl at dusk. Passing quarterbacks passing in the twilight: a fairly irresistible image. Even when Marino's gums are not packed with tobacco, there is a flash of boy Bradshaw. "Just as nicely unpolished," says Rocky Bleier, another retiree, "the same weight problem, the same quick release, the same compulsion to throw into the coverages." Police dogs were escorting Marino to his white Corvette in the parking lot. "What a ride...
...like the football. " 'Throw from your ear,' he told me, 'don't wind up. Do it that way now, even though it's harder, and when you're bigger and stronger, you'll be glad.' " Asked if his dad, who drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, happened to have a particular love of sports, Marino replies perfectly, "He happened to have a particular love of his children." For a happy period, their work and school shifts coincided. "He would hit me grounders, or we'd throw the football. 'Don't think you have to go out for any teams...
...erode and then quickly passes completely, some players seek that state of mind elsewhere and can't find it. We've had our victims." Then last year San Francisco returned to form and only narrowly missed going back to the Super Bowl. This season the 49ers stand just a Pittsburgh field goal from being undefeated. "Oh, I'm glad we're not," Walsh sighs. "That would have been brutal. We'd have surely cracked somewhere...
Another arrested squatter was Lutheran Pastor William Rex, a D.M.S. activist who faces additional troubles. Pittsburgh police accuse him of conspiring to plan a protest at Shadyside Presbyterian Church, where suspected D.M.S. members hurled balloons filled with dye and skunk spray at participants in a family Christmas pageant. In addition, members of Rex's parishes in Monroeville and Trafford, Pa., have petitioned Bishop May to investigate the parson's conduct...
Talk about meeting cute. The handsome young man (Mel Gibson) bolts from his cell on Pittsburgh's death row and lands smack on top of the warden's beautiful wife (Diane Keaton). Ron Nyswaner's script is based on fact--a 1901 jailbreak masterminded by the young matriarch who had fallen in love with one of the convicts--but the tone is pure High Hollywood elegiac. This is revolution as amour fou, which Diane Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director...