Word: podunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swelled head over the racket, only occasionally musical, that it produces; Memphis lauds itself about the special quiet it has enjoyed ever since the late Boss Ed Crump banned auto horns. Apalachicola, Fla.? The oyster is its world. Hope, Ark.? The watermelon is its. If some places-Podunk, Peoria and Kalamazoo as well as New Jersey -take unexpected pride in being the classic butt of vaudeville jokes, others seem to get a chauvinistic glow from the fact that they resemble a distant locale. Birmingham, Ala., for instance, has long saluted itself as the "Pittsburgh of the South...
...would locate on remote college campuses, Seattle and the other rising teams in the N.F.L. have beefed up their own scouting departments. Their model: Dallas, of course. Laments Gil Brandt, the Cowboys' vice president in charge of finding superstars: "We used to hear of a hot prospect at Podunk U. and send one of our guys to look at him. He'd be the only one there...
...Podunk and five or six other N.F.L. teams are looking over the same player." Remember, Gil, imitation...
...coverage, the AP and the UPI are careful to present the official version of news stories in the blandest and least provocative manner. Their philosophy in its most banal formulation is: aim at the lowest common denominator of public interest and avoid alientating either the Chicago Tribune or the Podunk Gazette. Investigative reporting that might raise hackles anywhere is, of course, out of the question: how Hersh managed to break the MyLai story while working for the AP is one of the great unanswered questions of our time...
...lonely grey-beards who comb sports statistics in places like Podunk, Kansas, are not apt to be upset by the Crimson lacrosse team's ninth place rating in New England, but it is with the stigma that the stickmen journey to New Hampshire today for an all-important tilt with fourth-ranked Dartmouth...