Word: twirler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orioles this year--California or maybe the Brobdingnagian Pittsburgh Pirates--with about 16 homeruns in a four-game sweep. The Orioles are the most boring team in baseball, a gaggle of colorless Holy Rollers. Around the league they tell this story about how Tippy Martinez, Baltimore's top bullpen twirler, invited Earl Weaver to a 7:30 a.m. Sunday prayer breakfast...
Lisa has cause for worry. Only seven girls can be chosen for the Huntsville twirling line, and competition is tough. Her elder sister Susan was a Huntsville High twirler for two years. But then the unthinkable happened. She failed to make the cut. Friends whisper that she gained too much weight to make the line. It was traumatic. "It affected Susan's image of herself," says Dick Cording, the girls' sympathetic father, who is chairman of the philosophy department at nearby Sam Houston State University. As a result, he says, "we've talked a lot about handling...
...hour. A week at one of the dozen or more twirling camps that blossom in the heat of Texas summer is about $90. Stretchy costumes cost as much as $60. The batons themselves, chrome-plated steel from 16 in. to 30 in. long, are about $12.50. Twirler parents spend about $600 a year, and some begin pushing their daughters into contests before they are old enough to go to school...
Progressive he may be, but Willie remains true to the bedrock traditions of folk, blues, jazz and country. His unusually sophisticated phrasing-now lagging behind the beat, now scooting ahead of it. twisting and rolling the melody like a champion lariat twirler-owes something to Frank Sinatra, one of his favorite singers. But his high, slightly nasal baritone retains an austere lyricism that goes back to Appalachian hills and hollows and beyond. Where much of commercial country music has only a catch in its throat, Willie's has a touch of iron in its soul...
...people who work hard for the system each year without pay. "Just say the pageant is my golf game," explains Charles when asked why he does it. From Atlantic City, too, comes intriguing word about some of the other contestants. Miss Mississippi, Christine learns, was a twirler in her band at "Ole Miss" and a fraternity sweetheart, and is the proud owner of a poodle named Po-Co who is her jogging mate...