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Sixty years ago, Bobby Jones never mentioned dispersion factors. He kissed his putter and called her Calamity Jane. "Sixty years ago," says Gene Sarazen, still slickered down and knickered up and still playing golf at 86, "I had a rotten grip. If you ask me, that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite...
...subject matter of almost universal concern," says Mitchell Daniels, president of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "There's genuine alarm about year after year of rotten performance...
Meanwhile, brown-haired, brown-eyed, Grambling-educated Williams dutifully reported to the worst expansion franchise in pro football history, the 2-26 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When two years later he lifted the Bucs to within a game of a Super Bowl, but no nearer, his reward was a rotten watermelon gift- wrapped by a racist fan. For peace as much as money, he eventually jumped to another league. When it folded in 1986, only Washington held out a job. At 32, five years older than Elway, Williams had been standing behind Jay Schroeder for a year and a half when...
...romance. The couple must proclaim themselves free of herpes and AIDS before easing into bed, she with her diaphragm, he with his condom (or is it hers?). They both know that in an age of erotic malaise, the mating dance is often an audition for a show that gets rotten reviews and closes on opening night. As O'Toole sighs, when her sister tells her to have fun, "Dating...
This week's guests include Mr. and Mrs. Righteous Proletariat, Ken (Daniel Luke Zelman) and Eileen (Heather Gunn), as well as Mr. M.B.A. and Mrs. Happiness-is-a-BMW, Ted (Peter Ocko) and Lou (Nicole Galland). With such contrasting types in one place, something is rotten in the camp of Erpingham...