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...sure did. And I bet a lot of the viewers did, too...hey hey, looks like a grand slam home...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Week That Was | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...years that followed, the irrepressible campaigner mastered scuba diving, took up painting and constantly peppered the press with salty jeremiads. After her husband died in 1967, she pursued her interests as energetically as ever. In 1971 she dusted off a couple of past incarnations with a new play, Slam the Door Softly, that was characteristically full of tart one-liners ("I don't want alimony; I want severance pay"). A year later she held a reception for President Richard Nixon at her oceanfront estate in Honolulu before he met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan. Luce held no position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's First Renaissance Woman : Clare Boothe Luce: 1903-1987 | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Staring into a bright afternoon sun, Harvard goalie Tracee Whitley deflected a rocket off the foot of a Husky midfielder from the left corner of the penalty area. UConn's Gibbons was at the top of the goalie box to run through the rebound and slam it home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15th-Ranked Booters Stun Sixth-Ranked Huskies, 1-1 | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...Czech Ivan Lendl defeated the Swede Mats Wilander last week in the U.S. Open, the grand-slam tennis season closed without an American-born champion of any gender for the first time in 18 years. Excluding the aging Chris Evert, 32, no American-born woman active today has ever won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open or the Australian Open. In terms of the Davis Cup, the U.S. (a recent loser to Paraguay) has been reclassified a minor- league country, a zonal qualifier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Newly At A Loss for Worlds | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy whose violent death revealed a troubled double existence. Folks who found the Bad video too tough may be soothed by next year's Smooth Criminal. This multimillion-dollar minifilm has slam-bang special effects supervised by Colin Chilvers, who worked on the first three Superman films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Badder They Come | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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