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...unknown because he has so far appeared in only three minor pictures. He had the scripts with him because producers all over the world are nonetheless begging him to work for them. He needed hospitalization because he is physically shot. During the past 20 months, he has suffered sand burns on his feet, sprained both ankles, cracked an anklebone, torn ligaments in his thigh and hip, dislocated his spine, broken his thumb, partially lost the use of two fingers, sprained his neck, and suffered two concussions. The survivor's name is Peter O'Toole...
Doctors call the disorder pica (rhymes with Micah), from the Latin for magpie. But whereas the magpie merely collects assorted, useless objects, the pica victim eats them. Favorite items are newspapers, toilet and handkerchief tissues, clay and sand, wood, cigarettes and butts, used matches, laundry starch, crayons, grass and leaves, soap, aluminum foil-and even bugs. One girl of 14 ate several pages of newspaper every day, and found the classified ads especially tasty...
...matter. The point is only that Mr. Rutman, along with the man who runs the gallery, is not an artist. Worse than that, people are theoretically going in and paying money for his blobs and craters. Mr. Wickline's artform, which is paint splashed on layers and levels of sand, burlap, and reindeer moss, offers no solution. The titles of his displayed works are "Entourage," "Into Night," "Still Night," "Quiet Harbor," "Impending," "Dusk, Autumn," and "Dawn Spring," all captured by odd strips and lumps of color in black backgrounds...
...even after 32 holes of the 36-hole match. Yet this was match-play elimination golf, not the usual 72-hole stroke-play tournament. Both had already played close to 100 holes, and it was Billy Joe who went to pieces-into the trees on the 34th and a sand trap on the 35th-leaving Harris to face Downing Gray, a 24-year-old insurance man and weekend golfer from Pensacola, Fla., in the finals...
When a tee shot sank in a sand trap during the final round at Rochester, N.Y., fortnight ago, the bold blonde pulled a real surprise out of her bag. As a stunned gallery watched, and a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED photographer snapped away, JoAnne blasted her way out of the trap with-for heaven's sake-a No. 5 wood, instead of the normal wedge. The ball plunked down just a few feet from the edge of the green, and she made her par 4, went on to win the tournament. "I always go for broke," said JoAnne...