Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ridiculous. In a wicked, fence-straddling about-face, Bertolucci allows Paul to act obnoxious even while he visually supports Paul's view of things. Nothing holds any people in the film together except for the pursuit of private obsessions, and Bertolucci's Paris is nothing but a lush bourgeois playground. There's no way that a sensitive individual can survive unbruised and unbowed in such an environment, but there's no indication that Paul had any strength to his sensitivity even before he hit Paris, and when he talks of facing death (meaning the suicide of his wife) the self...
...team in Little League called "Klein's Stationery Owls" when, with the bases loaded, I came in from the bullpen (actually I had been chasing this cute nine-year old girl around the playground) and proceeded to walk in five straight runs. I probably should have given up the sport right then, but I persisted until the day in JV ball at prep school when, with the varsity coaches watching, I hit into a triple play to end the season, and my career...
...unreal life of the croquet tournament and the formal ball goes on today just as though nothing much had changed, except for the invention of air conditioning, since Henry Flagler first laid a railroad span across Lake Worth in 1894 and opened up an idyllic new playground to his friends. From what is probably the world's richest island, now at the height of the two-month ritual known simply as The Season, TIME'S Peter Range reports...
Giants. It only seems that way. Wooden's coaching philosophy is, in fact, anything but unreal: "Get the players in the best of condition. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly. Drill them to play as a team." Cynics scoff at such talk; talented giants, not playground bromides, they say, account for U.C.L.A.'S success. Wooden is, in fact, currently graced with 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, the best center in college basketball. And before Walton, U.C.L.A. had Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft. 2-in. pivotman who led the Bruins to three national titles, then turned...
...frequently that his teammates nicknamed the whirlpool "the S.S. Rentzel." Norm Van Brocklin, the Vikings' coach, disliked Rentzel's carefree attitude and derisively called him "Joe College." Finally, in September 1966. while nursing yet another injury, Rentzel read George Orwell's 1984, became very depressed, drove to a playground, and exposed himself to two girls. Promising to submit to psychiatric treatment, he was let off on a charge of disorderly conduct. Rentzel played out the rest of the season, and, in early 1967, was traded to the Dallas Cowboys...