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...evening's smoothest duets, brash young intern Greg Arius, played by the show's best voice, Adam Wolman, wins over the billionaire's man-hating daughter, Miss Anne Thrope (Todd Fletcher). If Miss Anne cries crocodile tears while her sisters and stepmothers celebrate Denuar's death, she will gain his confidence--and eventually the lion's share of his estate. Secretly, Nurse Dwyer plans to bring about the horseshoe mogul's death with arsenic from Saint...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Medicine Ball | 2/24/1988 | See Source »

...being bright and a little droll, he was "hitterish," and Reggie's interest extended to sending Joyner bats and calling him in Edmonton (home of the AAA Trappers). Again Joyner accumulated only a dozen homers for the season, but proceeding directly to a winter league in Puerto Rico, the smoothest left-hand swinger on the island hit 14 more in 54 games. Without a break, he continued on to the major leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reggie and the Rookie | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Without a doubt, the first 350 years weren't exactly the smoothest between Harvard and Cambridge. Wouldn't it be nice if Harvard decided to change its longstanding and well-known indifference toward the surrounding community with a little 350th beneficence...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Put Substance Over Style | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard is the smoothest skating team in the ECAC, then Yale is the biggest, strongest and most lumbering. The huge Elis will be back to their favorite clutch-and-grab tactics on the warm ice of Ingalls Rink...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: Paint It Crimson | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...Cousy, the smoothest passer basketball had ever seen, a man who both guarded and coached Oscar Robertson, says without the merest reservation, "Bird is simply the best who ever played this silly game." He includes Center Bill Russell, Cousy's Boston teammate, whose presence had the most to do with the Celtics' eleven National Basketball Association championships in 13 years. By basketball's nature, it is fundamentally a pivotman's game, the expected province of the Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Philadelphia 76er Moses Malone, but Forward Bird forwardly deposed Malone as the league's MVP last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Gretzky: To Be Simply the Best | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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