Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pirouetting Pachyderm. No one, including Tony, is quite sure how he does it. There are two basic styles of goaltending: the stand-up and the flipflop. Esposito excels at neither. Instead, he patrols the net in a fashion that might be described as roam around, fall down and scramble. "Unorthodox but effective" is how Black Hawk Coach Billy Reay tactfully describes it. Against Boston last week, the pudgy, heavily padded Esposito whirled around the goal like a pirouetting pachyderm, deflecting shots with his elbows, knees and shoulders. Occasionally he even used his stick as Chicago won 6-3 and moved...
...Fisher mountain man with Gunnar Myrdal's scholarship, Saul Alinsky's cogs-and-wheels knowledge of the impoverished and disaffected, and Walt Whitman's passion for undeodorized reality. As a cantankerous, outspoken symbol of the unindexed human spirit, Lundquist is too dangerous to be allowed to roam the nation's slums, migrant-labor camps and mined-out hills. He might stir up the animals, or give them dangerous lessons in non-gamesmanship...
...aristocrats of American horse racing, he used to have The Racing Form delivered to his roam at prep school...