Word: walt
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...fate has it in for us. But even if fate were to relent, what would it matter? I’ve read about the championship teams of the early 1970s, the Knicks of Willis Reed, Walt Frazier and Dave DeBusschere. My mom has told me about how all of New York fell in love with them...
...about traveling to places, physical and mental, that most people would rather avoid. Johnson comes, and he sees, and he writes about it. Sometimes he passes judgment. Unsurprisingly, he puts it best himself: “I want to float above the fray, want to be like Walt Whitman, ‘both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.’” Johnson’s only shortfall is the shortness of his output—I’d like to find some more strange places to send...
...April 8 TIGER WOODS won his fourth consecutive major tournament and became, in the eyes of sportswriters, his generation's Bobby Jones. Two days later, when the Walt Disney Corp. asked him to be an official spokesman, he became his generation's Mickey Mouse. Woods, who earns $54 million a year, mostly from endorsements, is expected to appear in commercials for Disney theme parks, endorse Disney merchandise and work with the Disney-owned network ESPN. He will be the only flesh-and-blood celebrity in the pantheon of adorable creatures Disney uses to put a face on its entertainment empire...
Back in 1991, before Marvel comics completely tanked creatively and financially, they gave Walt Simonson writing and penciling duties on "The Fantastic Four," issues #350, 352, 353, and 354. (Number 351 was a throwaway, "filler" issue.) I doubt the title has seen such a highlight since then. These four issues are some of the best mainstream comic entertainment I have read. And issue 352 stands alone as a pinnacle not just of the series, but the art form...
...other two issues of this Walt Simonson run, 353 and 354, are more or less denouements to the story that begins and ends in 350 and 352. Still, they are highly imaginative and even funny, involving the team's tangle with a cosmic bureaucracy known as the Time Variance Authority...