Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson also showcases three-sport phenomenon Char Joslin, who moonlights as a Harvard midfielder during the ice hockey and lacrosse off-seasons. Last year, Joslin came on strong at the end of the season--as freshmen sometimes do--and recorded a goal and three assists. She finished second in the Ivy League Rookie of the Year balloting behind Yale goalie Sue Sabatino and earned second team All-Ivy honors...
Last year, it was Char Joslin, the only three-sport athlete at Harvard in 1986-'87, who proved a coach's (or, in her case, coaches') dream. Joslin starred in field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse...
...American-owned jumbos, over 100 ft. from stem to stern, is increasing from 80 in 1986 to 129, with the launch of 49 new yachts now under construction. More remarkable is that 33 of these yachts will be products of U.S. yards, rather than foreign competitors. Jumbo yachts sport a hefty price tag, ranging from $6 million to $50 million, depending on size and fittings. Annual maintenance can run up to 10% of the yacht's cost...
...late 40s, Sports Columnist Doug Gardner is divorced. His ex-wife glamorously remarries and surrounds their teenagers with luxuries. Doug is suddenly uncertain of anything, even jogging: Do you get the benefits of extra endurance now, he wonders, "when you're still able to eat a pastrami sandwich, or at the end when you're already on a life-support system?" The gloomy sportswriter imagines his own funeral, but it is only his columns that die. Corman offers savage, sparkling portraits of the hustlers and operators of professional sport, including a newspaper owner who believes in the lowest common dominator...
...stressing decor and drinks. The palette runs to hot pink, orange and turquoise that sparkles even in drinks made with blue curacao -- concoctions that may look suspiciously like Windex to the uninitiated. Frozen in slush machines, the rainbow drinks of tropical fruits and assorted rums, vodkas and liqueurs sport such names as Bora Bora, Goombay Smash and Creamsickle, and have instant appeal to the Kool-Aid generation...