Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What an ineffable thrill it was to watch Sadat, Begin and Carter shaking hands [Sept. 25]. It was as singularly breathtaking as the feeling I had when Neil Armstrong murmured through the heavens, "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind...
...night while I was watching the Late Show-I always watch the Late Show while I'm doing my ironing, ever since I started getting these terrible shooting back pains if I ironed during As the World Turns, just like the pains my older sister used to get before they operated on her varicose veins-anyway, this guy comes on during the Late Show and he's demonstrating the Miracle Vegetronic. You know, the one that slices, dices, cubes, chops, grates, shoestrings and shaves a tomato so thin you can read a newspaper through it? Well, I sent...
...Puerto Rican Day in June, when some 250,000 members of the community parade up Fifth Avenue and turn Central Park into a joyous 840-acre cookout. It is then that Puerto Rican exuberance blossoms. Hotels and nightclubs rock to the three-two rhythms of salsa. Hot dog vendors watch forlornly as their all-American offerings are spurned in favor of bacalaitos (codfish fritters), alcapurrias (plantain-meat rolls) and tostones (fried plantains). The community comes ablaze - forgetting for a while the gritty realities of its plight...
Welcome to the world of big business, realizes the kid who thought Elgin Baylor and the Big O would always be there for his personal enjoyment. And for that matter, welcome to the 1978-79 edition of the NBA. Watch your step...
...resigned to spending the rest of the autumn indoors watching professional athletes, then you'll certainly be at Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon to watch the Crimson football team match-up against Cornell in (if you'll excuse me) the battle of the cellar-dwellars. Of course, I've got to point out that Cornell and Harvard, who are currently occupying the bottom two rungs of the Ivy League column after only one game, both sport better overall records than the two co-leaders, Yale and Dartmouth--so there...