Word: stilting
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...never know what's going to happen," Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin said just moments after last night's loss, stilt clinging to that faint hope...
...broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along for the fun and grunts in the film, now shooting in Mexico, is the Amazonian Zula, played by Model-Disco Star Grace Jones, 30. How does Wilt the Stilt feel about trading his hoop spiking for a spiked club? "I figure if I'm going to be a baddie, I better have something serious to back me up," he says. "I designed it myself. I might take it with me the next time I'm out for a walk in New York...
...game to raise funds for needy pro-basketball players. Indeed, the old stars do still seem to have it. Cousy, 55, handled the ball with magical dexterity, and when 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain, 46, slam-dunked a basket, the crowd roared as if "Wilt the Stilt" had never missed a season. Twyman, 49, who originally organized the benefit, does not think the pro game has changed all that much. Says Twyman, now a wholesale-grocery businessman: "If I was in shape and 23 again, I could probably play with anybody...
...been "in and out of institutions" and had attempted suicide. Barnett was, in fact, listed on Los Angeles County fire department logs for a "possible suicide attempt" last October, after she was found lying, with a broken back, on the beach 30 ft. below the balcony of the stilt-supported Malibu home...
...islands glitter with bright, swooping birds, whose local names are often as colorful as their plumage: the sugarbird or bananaquit; eight varieties of tern, one known as kill-'em-Polly; five endemic warblers, one called Betsey-kick-up or Mary-shake-well; the common stilt or crackpot soldier; the mangrove cuckoo or 4 o'clock bird; the magnificent frigate, and the brown pelican, with its beak holding more than its belican...