Word: wallenda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karl Wallenda, on why he still walks the circus high wire at age 73: "I like to do things that other people cannot do. I can still...
...Monday past, baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the leading practitioner of legalistic high-wire acrobatics that would befuddle the Wallenda brothers, voided the sale of Oakland's ace lefty Vida Blue to the Cincinnatti Reds for $1.75 million. Kuhn nixed the sale, as he had an earlier deal for Blue's services between Oakland owner Charlie Finley and the Yankees, on the grounds that it was not "in the best interests of baseball...
...almost impregnable wall of protection led by Tackle Art Shell and Guard Gene Upshaw, his left arm ever cocked, "the Snake" ready to strike. Few quarterbacks have had a covey of receivers to rival Stabler's. Wide Receiver Fred Biletnikoff, 33, works the sideline like a 190-lb. Wallenda. His hands are liberally coated with Hold-Tite, but all the sticky goo in the world will not replace the 30 min. per day he spends tossing a football against a wall and snatching up the unpredictable rebounds. Cliff Branch, the other wide receiver, runs 100 yds. in 9.3 sec., which...
Eventually one wonders if there is not a little Flying Wallenda in Author Mosley-a lot of skill and daring and not a little wobble. The unsatisfied muse, Natalie, might point out that there are too many attenuated aperçus here and too big an aesthetic load weighing on such a slight situation. But the sweet muse, Natalia, would smile upon a good writer trying to define and dramatize the mystery of creativity. In the end, Tony thinks, "If Natalia was sun and earth, I was gravity." It is a stunning metaphor for a writer's goal...