Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the winter, 43-year-old Perry can often be found at Caesars Palace and other casinos, betting on races, blackjack and sporting events. In the summers, he coaches some of New York City's top inner-city basketball prospects. Scurry says he and Perry have a close relationship as player and former coach, and on about half a dozen occasions Perry gave him small amounts of "tip money" -- no more than $20 -- merely as a token of affection. Ross, a former C.B.A. coach, agrees: "He does have the kids' best interests at heart...
...high-class call girl (the tonier papers left it at "socialite") and hunted down her many eminent admirers, including Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil (quickly dubbed "Randy Andy") and Observer Editor Donald Trelford ("Dirty Don"), as well as Sports Minister Colin Moynihan, who escorted Bordes to the Conservative Winter Ball. Tory M.P. David Shaw, it turned out, had been so taken with her talents that, with the help of fellow Tory M.P. Henry Bellingham, he hired Bordes as a researcher in the House...
...your hackles up, California. We are here to discuss that choke-thy- neighbor word, water. Here being a quintessentially innocuous looking and provocative setting, the Los Angeles water intercept on Lee Vining Creek in the eastern Sierras. On a brilliant winter afternoon, knee-deep snow covers the intake pond behind a small concrete dam, and a Steller's jay swoops among the evergreens. Mount Dana, lacking only an Ansel Adams moon, is lit up crisply against a cloudless sky. And in the background (the sticking point), there is the sound of rushing water...
Even on a bleak, late-winter day, the little town of Clay Center, Kans., exudes all the homeyness and warmth of a Norman Rockwell painting. Tidy, freshly painted houses cover the small knoll that rises north of the town square. The homes of the middle class cost about $20,000; those of the poor are timeworn but neat. One of the tallest buildings in town is a barnlike structure built by a woman who gives baton-twirling lessons...
...probably go back to Briggs Cage next winter to see athletes such as Harvard sophomore Ian Smith, who packs biology books with his Nikes and gives meaning to that first forgotten word in "student-athlete...