Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine, that over a year ago the New York Mets' Dwight Gooden entered rehabilitation for a drug problem, that Brian Bosworth was ineligible to play for Oklahoma in the 1987 Orange Bowl because he tested positive for steroids. Even entire teams, the Pheonix Suns, for example, have been the subject of drug-related investigations...
...final part of the index, grades, is a more effective measure, but it also subject to occasional flaws. Superior students are sometimes inept in a single subject, which pulls down their overall grade point average; this human factor is often accounted for by understanding admissions officers...
Campaign manager James A. Baker III told reporters that after giving it more thought overnight, Bush was opposed to the idea. Bush told reporters he had "no change" on the subject, although during the debate he said he hadn't "sorted out" the subject of possible penalties...
...subject of twin gynecologists, driven to dementia and a symbiotic murder-suicide by urges that both share but neither understands, seems a scenario only Cronenberg could dream up. In fact, the story comes from the novel Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which in turn was based on the case history of Drs. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, a pair of respected gynecologists who in 1975 were found dead in a Manhattan apartment. From these threads Cronenberg has spun a fantasia of split personality and the vulnerable male ego. The film's identical twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played...
...Seaver celebration who . . . "O.K.," Giamatti concedes, "I am seen as the prime mover of the balk." And he goes on, somewhat wearily, to explain again that he is only one member of the rules committee, which decided last winter to make pitchers toe the line. Then he changes the subject. "Remember what Seaver did at the end of the ceremony?" After a brief speech, the future Hall of Famer jogged to the pitching mound, the sphere of so many of his triumphs, and acknowledged wave after wave of ovations. "I'll tell you," Giamatti says, "that...