Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listeners laughed heartily, if a mite uneasily. Dryer's caricature bore more than a passing resemblance to the 750 reporters and 300 photographers who descended on Los Angeles last week to watch the Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers collide in Super Bowl XIV. For seven days, the National Football League virtually immobilized the journalists in a thick public relations syrup. Upon arriving they were given a designer carryall, a briefcase and enough press handouts to reconstruct a tree. They were bused to mind-numbing press conferences and interview sessions, and courtesy cars were available if they wanted to take...
...team failed to reach Super Bowl XIV, but Oakland Raiders Safety Jack Tatum is making his presence known off the field with about as much impact as the bruising tackles that have made him one of football's worst-feared defensive players. Tatum, who left New England Patriots Receiver Darryl Stingley paralyzed from the neck down after a 1978 encounter, has set down a chilling account of his violent career. The book, written with Pro-turned-Journalist Bill Kushner, was published last week (Everest House; $9.95). Its grisly title: They Call Me Assassin...
Super Bowl XIV...
Super Bowl XIV...
...there that Moliére (Philippe Caubère) learned his craft and began writing the first of his farces, which were to make him France's greatest comic playwright. His troupe returned to Paris and gained the patronage of the young Louis XIV, who was then a mere sparkler compared with the great Sun King he was to become. Like all satirists, Moliére wrote from anger and disappointment, however, and his sharp attacks on the reigning conventions infuriated the clergy and its conservative supporters. Even Louis had to bow to the pressure, and Tartuffe, perhaps...