Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group's first full-length motion picture, And Now For Something Completely Different, included this skit, complete with props and the suitable atmosphere of a pet shop. Seeing this skit performed again on the bare stage of a London auditorium leaves you flat; watching a grown man repeatedly slam a stuffed parrot against a desk to prove its deceased state ceases to be funny after a while. The same can be said for the movie's closing sequence, featuring the transvestite lumberjack number. It is the sheer shock value of these skits that made them so hilarious the first time...
Purdy's tally came when George Hughes led both Purdy and Jim Trainor into the Northeastern zone on a two-on-two break. Gene took it all the way in; past the blue line, around the net from the right side, and then slam-dunked a tuck shot underneath the stacked pads of Husky netminder Ed Arrington...
Booker followed up on a rebound to make it 43-37 and then brought the house to its feet midway through the half when he swiped the ball and raced full court for a plexiglass pummeling slam dunk on which he drew a foul. He converted the three point play to give Harvard a 50-39 edge...
...Booker's slam-dunk at the 3:15 mark pretty much put the game away, but the important news out of Cabot Gym last night was not the victory. It was that the Harvard five, for the first time this season, played 40 minutes as a cohesive team...
DIED. S.L.A. Marshall, 77, a towering military historian who analyzed all the wars of modern America; after a long illness; in El Paso, Texas. "Slam" Marshall was seldom far from the sound of gunfire. After growing up in El Paso, he became a combat infantry officer in World War I. He covered the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II, he became the chief combat historian in the Central Pacific and Europe. Out of his experiences in the Korean War came his most esteemed books, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. His writing was distinguished...