Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davis foresees another possible horror. If they were prevented by man's technology from releasing their heat through tropical storms, the equatorial seas might warm up until their huge store of heat would be released in the form of super hurricanes that could make their present-day counterparts seem as mild as a summer downpour...
...ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody -- the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory -- at this point the movie gets boring -- he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Orson Welles. Midnight...
...Popular unrest in the U.S. threatens to undercut support for a powerful chief executive--the primary agent of the growing industrial super-giants in their efforts to circumvent New Deal government regulation...
...Super Moocher. That self-defense, like so much else he says, is subject to rebuttal. He is full of tips on how to unnerve an opponent, how to arrange for the other person to have the sun in his eyes, how to tease a tired adversary into forgoing a legitimate rest between sets. Perhaps his own favorite hustle of all time took place when he was on a golf kick. He knew that he could beat a particular teaching pro, and so he covertly arranged for the pro to be hired by a Florida club. Then Bobby would show...
Riggs means to enjoy every moment of his second childhood, grabbing every dollar and goody within reach. He fantasies that it will go on and on. "After Billie Jean," he says, "it'll be hot-and-cold running women, it'll be the Super Bowl or Rose Bowl of tennis, the Riggs spectacular once a year-the best woman player of the year, that's the one who'll have to play Bobby Riggs." He has also raved about crashing the Virginia Slims tour ("How will they keep me out? Do they want to be called...