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Maybe so, in their way. But how come they never married, and slept together only once? Well, partly because she can't help topping him onstage or in moral debate. It's hard to cuddle up to all that brass. But also because he's tricky goods, with one of those smeary little mustaches that signal untrustworthiness and the kind of stage manner from which unexamined overuse has drained both spontaneity and authenticity. Even Eddie's devotion to the USO circuit is suspect. His piety is a bit too hair-trigger, and there's always a self- serving glint...
...presence of sexually available women on the sidelines of sport is nothing new. After all, Babe Ruth's appetite for women was as insatiable as his lust for food and booze. In his newly published memoir, A View from Above, Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain boasts of having slept with 20,000 women -- an average of 1.4 a day for 40 years...
...glamour of associating with celebrated and highly visible "hard bodies." According to a 31-year-old who has had affairs with athletes in two sports, "for women, many of whom don't have meaningful work, the only way to identify themselves is to say whom they have slept with. A woman who sleeps around is called a whore. But a woman who sleeps with Magic Johnson is a woman who has slept with Magic Johnson. It's almost as if it gives her legitimacy...
Then there was Herbert Hoover. His name was associated with every stinking aspect of the Great Depression. Shantytowns where the unemployed lived were called "Hoovervilles." The newspapers people slept under were "Hoover blankets." The opposums and rabbits vagrants ate in city parks were "Hoover steaks...
Calling present military spending levels "absurd," Agran said such expenditures indicate America has a "Rip Van Winkle President and a Rip Van Winkle Congress which has just slept through the end of the Cold...