Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking of boxing, the Ali-Evangelista fight was the most exciting thing I've seen since Evel Knieval's jump over the Snake River Canyon a few years ago. On second thought, there may be more to that analogy than I thought. Maybe Ali, like Knievel, proved that he was over the hill. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that...
Elsewhere, Gene Autry, the Angels' owner who thought he bought himself a pennant, now realizes that all he did was lasso himself another mediocre club. Million-dollar free agent Don Baylor is particularly useful to the team: his .207 batting average wouldn't let him play in the Pacific Coast League...
What propelled her? As much as anything, she thought, a tough childhood. Like so many female movie stars, she was the product of a broken home. She made it through high school by serving as a slavey in a private school, enduring broom-handle beatings from the headmaster's wife. Dancing was her escape - first emotionally, then literally, when she became a Shubert chorus girl...
Dostoyevsky thought him a haughty poseur; the Goncourt brothers found him an amiable giant. He wrangled with Tolstoy, befriended Zola, intrigued Carlyle, enchanted Henry James. He was at once a hunter of game and celebrity, a well-traveled man of letters, and a provincial Russian. Ivan Turgenev's life is several lives, and by now several biographies should have recounted them. Yet, as Critic V.S. Pritchett notes, there has not been a definitive biography of Turgenev in any language...
...thought Yale would be there the whole way, and so we planned to move by with a strong and silent power ten in the last half mile," number three Cynthia Strong said yesterday...