Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gentle, including Larry Holmes. He is a child of both Cuthbert, Ga., and Easton, Pa. The seventh of Flossie Holmes' dozen children, he grew up lisping when he talked and lashing out when he was frustrated. One of his strongest motivations for not losing is the thought of the schoolyard taunting that he fears would await his children. He left school in the seventh grade, the year his father, a manual laborer, left home. Holmes laments his lack of education. In a dream he had before his 1980 fight with Ali, he is in the ring fighting when he hears...
...Billyball, it was still leaving opponents faked out of their flannels. On opening day, the A's choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...
...business has never been better. Demand is strong for almost any sort of electronic gadget, from programmable calculators to video games. Sales of computer-based "smart toys" like Simon, which uses increasingly complex patterns of flashing colors and sounds as a space-age update of the old Simon Says schoolyard game, are especially robust...
...amused and appalled at his creation. In Kramer vs. Kramer he made Splitsville an interesting place to spend marriage. His newest tale concerns the mid-life-style of Steve Robbins, a child of The Bronx circa 1944. Steve grows up indifferent to everything but basketbal played in a schoolyard. But his parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped with a business degree and a modicum of ambition, he sets out for "the most dazzling job in the world"-as an advertising man. Madison...
When he was ten years old, he got into a schoolyard fight because he was rooting for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Ever since, Patrick Lucey, 62, has been a stalwart of the Democratic Party, a key reason why Independent John Anderson chose him last week as his vice-presidential running mate...