Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Football's first major concession to TV occurred back in 1967, when the Super Bowl featured two kickoffs for the second half; NBC had been in the middle of a commercial for the first boot. Today, time-outs are given for a sound athletic reason - the sponsors need time to air their messages. (Those sponsors tackle each other for the privilege of paying up to $70,000 for a one-minute, Sunday afternoon commercial.) The networks, with their zeppelins and zoom lenses, their dreamlike instant replays of color and violence, have changed football watching from a remote college pastime...
...California team. "At home in Bel Air," he explains, "I looked around at the material things that I have and I thought about what we've gone through in Buffalo and I didn't want to be traded." Confident that the Bills are destined for the Super Bowl in a season or three, he says: "We cried together. Now I want to drink champagne together...
Delayed Delivery. Almost from the start, Mrs. Stanek knew she was super pregnant. By the twelfth week her doctors told her she was carrying more than two fetuses. By the 24th week they announced there would be at least four and ordered her to bed. By the time she was admitted to Denver's General Rose Memorial Hospital, X rays had confirmed that she was carrying sextuplets...
...made his duck-footed appearance before the largest crowd ever to witness a tennis match (30,472) as well as a Super Bowl-size TV audience, Riggs was grim, nervous, almost ashen. Billie Jean was stretched taut also, but it was the tension of a superior athlete fully confident of her capabilities...
...rather ironic, then, that Riggs is so unmale? Since when has hustling or super-mooching or picking fights with women been something men are proud of? Not since Riggs. The word 'hustler', after all, originally meant 'prostitute' -- it was a woman's wheedling way of getting what she wanted. Fifteen years ago, you might have described Riggs as a sissy, and a slippery one at that. But now he's made it a life style, and elevated it to a full blown ethic. He has devoted himself to an anti-male role, to avoiding all the resonsibilities entailed in being...