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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beyond The Game, a Champion | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michael D. Shin, | Title: The Erpingham Camp | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

...moment, Talbot considers abandoning his extensively planned future: his post in the service of the British governor of Australia, which will in time bring him back to England, election to Parliament from his godfather's "rotten borough" and prospective glories beyond. And to throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mercies of Wind and Sea CLOSE QUARTERS | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...worked for SASC. They think reactionaries like Duke Kent-Brown or conservatives like Caspar Weinberger '38 are bad people. By constantly threatening these speakers with blockades and rotten tomatoes, SASC has convinced Spence that such speakers should only appear "once a week" at most...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Keeping Speech Free | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

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