Word: toes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freedom of Expression. The New York Jets' Joe Namath was once instantly recognizable with his fancy white cleats, long hair and Fu Manchu mustache. But now Joe is being upstaged by a whole host of players with twinkle-toe shoes and pageboy locks. Defensive End Tommy Hart, who started a run on white cleats among the San Francisco 49ers, says gleefully: "We're psychedelic, man!" The Chicago Cubs' Joe Pepitone, who favors lavender suede sashes and see-through paisley shirts off duty, gets his kicks on the field by wearing a fluffy hairpiece. In the National Basketball...
...expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only one toe to frostbite...
Darcy Pulliam as Mrs. Brice and Kevin Cotter as Fanny's toe-tapping friend Eddie Ryan are delightful in two minor numbers, "Who Taught Her Everything," and "Find Yourself a Man," Cotter has the best voice in the cast. My favorite character has always been the neighborhood yenta Mrs. Strakosh, Eva Piques, who inherited this gem, has read either not enough or too much Philip Roth. She swallowed some of her best lines (especially "When a girl's incidentals are no bigger than two lentils, then to me that doesn't spell success."). For this I waited...
...steam and sympathy. Two weeks ago, Italy's conservative C.I.S.L. labor union called a general strike in the Reggio area. Port workers, post office clerks and telephone and telegraph employees left their jobs. When railway workers followed last week, the 10 million people in Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot were virtually cut off from the rest of the ''country. Barricades and wrecked tracks forced trains from the north to halt two hours short of Reggio. The Highway of the Sun, Italy's main north-south autostrada, was sealed off. With the port blocked...
...well-varied dozen of the best new songs from his own publishing company (Window Music). One of them, Chuck Howard's porch-swinging serenade, I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way, has the stamp of a country classic, and Loser's Lounge is a toe-tapper that even city slickers should find a winner...