Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irene burst forth in the playgirl mold, married an international socialite-sportsman named Freddie McEvoy, whose outdoor sport was bobsledding, and whose indoor hobby was cavorting with the Errol Flynn crowd. Charlene watched in wide-eyed wonder, but did not join in the fun. She went to Finch College in New York, where she won glowing good grades. At about the same time, her father was winning as a bride a California model named Jayne Larkin-only a few years older than Charlene...
...enjoy being kidded. His comedy is eager and innocent; he plays to the child in Everyman, allowing no room in his spectrum for the off-color, no time in his world for anything but the basic games of laughter, song and pantomime. While others find subject for sport in drugs, dames, madmen and sit-ins, Danny Kaye looks around, beyond and behind him toward a world where a Pinocchio of a man, his tongue cast in quicksilver, can get people laughing simply by reminding them of the children they used...
...form requires. The piano simply accompanies the clarinet, as in a coloratura song, and the clarinet does little more than produce the kind of music an inspired Greek might dream up to charm a belly dancer. It is vapid, threadbare stuff-good fun for Benny Goodman, but hardly sport for Bernstein...
...over the world, many addressed simply "Pelé" - with no country. Back home in Brazil, he is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. and ambitious politicians are forever trying to shake his hand in front of photographers. He is the biggest star of the world's big gest spectator sport - soccer - and he is only...
...lost, lost, do you hear? You don't hear? I'm yowling - don't you hear me? Switch the lights off! Smash the bulbs! Can you hear me now? Louder! you say? Louder! Christ, are you making sport of me? Are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Must I yank my clothes off? Must I dance on my head...