Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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turning into the money match of the year ($250,000 to the winner), the pre-game volleys have already begun. Piqued by hecklers at an earlier tournament, Connors at first offered to buy 536 courtside box seats for his confrontation with Newcombe at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. No, thanks, said hotel officials. Then last week Connors' manager Bill Riordan gave a quick backhand to Golfer Jack Nicklaus, who, Riordan claimed, had labeled such big-money, head-to-head sports contests as "ripoffs of the public." Huffed Riordan: "Nicklaus wouldn't be making the big money...
Looking at Art Carney's mournful Popeye face is to encounter the resignation of an aging bullfighter contemplating his last fight. Only this time Art has won both ears and the tail. He was the surprise winner of an Oscar for his gentle, ruminative portrayal of a 72-year-old Odysseus adrift with his orange cat in Harry and Tonto...
...recent winning pace to collect his fifth Masters title? Can Johnny Miller, who missed the cut at the Heritage Classic, regain the winning touch that earned him three titles earlier this season? How will Lee Elder handle the pressure of being the first black to compete for the winner's green jacket? These are among the tantalizing questions that will draw thousands of fans to Augusta, Ga., this week, and millions more to their television sets to view golf's most notable rite of spring-the Masters tournament...
...much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried about prestige--they're worried about their lives, their salaries, their rank in the Hollywood hierarchy. The winner of the Best Picture of the Year award is likely to double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best Supporting Actor jack nicholson can become Jack...
...Everything will be piped home, first run onto big TV screens in the living room. We'll pay for our movie tickets on the phone bill. That's what Hollywood media prophets tell me anyway. We'll be seeing awards for "Best Holographic Effects in a Documentary" and the winner will come up and say something nasty about President (Julie) Eisenhower and her foreign policy. Then he'll get booed down because President Eisenhower is a personal friend, benefactor and symbol of about half the people there. And Bob Hope will make a joke about...