Word: sensationalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The freshman sensation crusied to a 6-1 triumph in the first set over Garber. The second set was a little tighter, but Minkus captured a 6-4 decision to clinch the fifth victory of the day.
Freshman sensation Minkus clinched the match with a 7-5, 6-2, over Michelle Miller. Minkus was Harvard's fifth-straight win of the day.
For the next decade he supported himself in London by writing advertising copy. He wed a British woman and fathered a son. (That union ended in divorce in 1987; Rushdie is now married to the American author Marianne Wiggins.) His first novel, Grimus (1974), was a critical and commercial flop...
Freshman sensation Cathy Griffin broke her second record in the 20-1b. weight with a toss of 49-ft., 8 1/2-in. and won the shot put, throwing 44-ft., 6 3/4-in.
Jordan first became a national sensation on an evening in March 1982 with "the Shot," as appreciative locals still call it. Jordan, then a freshman at the University of North Carolina, nailed a 17-ft. jumper to win the school's first national championship in 25 years. Over the next...