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...starts dating back to 1983. In 40 openings over three injury-prone years, he and the Bears are 36-4, and Ditka is as galled as several of the players. The thought of Mad McMahon riding to the season's rescue on his black chopper does not thrill anyone, especially the coach. "I don't believe you're really that hurt," Ditka told McMahon straight out before the diagnosis. "He's been Sybil-izing a lot lately," McMahon yawned, a coded reference to a multiple personality. "Why would I not want to throw a football? I have...
Although Gould said "it was quite a thrill to sit next to Mantle at the game," he admitted that "my real childhood dream would have been to sit with DiMaggio...
...Eliot was teaching him, and he thought how this intimacy--Eliot carefully maneuvering the razor around his chin, washing off extra shaving cream, patting his face dry; this thrill of smooth, wet skin, shining--this belonged to men who were lovers alone. It seemed to him a kind of celebration...
...stand, a commentary on the baseball business that even the Mets players might contemplate. Before the series, when casually asked about the Game 3 home run he hit eleven years ago off Cincinnati, Evans looked up in astonishment. "Nobody remembers that," he insisted. "That was the greatest thrill of my career. I'm the only one who remembers that." Now he has hit two more that will scarcely be recalled...
...theatre existed on the verge of bankruptcyfor most of its lifetime. Actors and poets often"sewed their own costumes while learning theirlines," said Sayre. "But they saw a thrill inpresiding over abject poverty...