Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than several sizes larger than standard: 6 ft. 3½ in., 210 lbs., 322 victories (more of those than anyone else); a farmer's son from Arkansas, a wrestler of carnival bears, "the other end" to Don Hutson at Alabama, the other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note the resemblance. "This must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted...
Evans, a transfer student from Columbia, ha plainly goiter plenty of kicks en route to establishing himself as the most unusual student government participant in recent years. Who else could say "I'd like to be a rating orator in the mold of a Martin Luther King or an Adolph Hitler?" And it is equally clear that his antics have caused a good deal of consternation among student government traditionalists, more accustomed to debating Robert's Rule of order than the merits of "King Trivia...
...triumph over the material. It's hard to pass judgement on Mark Linn-Baker; the timorous quality of his nice-Jewish-boy persona seems to have been written into the script, and there's little that he can do to overcome it. Joseph Bologna, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy, and Adolph Green are all fine character actors, but in this case, we've seen the characters too often before. Most of them are in the well-worn uptight-showbiz mold; the Yiddish momma schtick at Benjy's Brooklyn home is an excruciating parade of old cliches. Only one memorable move emerges...
DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...
...Adolph Coors Co. of Golden, Colo., everything seemed to be going right in the early 1970s. Though it was a regional beer produced in a single brewery, Coors won a kind of trendy following among everyone from college kids to Henry Kissinger and was carted in suitcases and backpacks across the U.S. Annual sales gains averaging 10% carried Coors to fourth place among brewers nationwide, but in 1977 disaster struck. The brewery was hit by a long and costly strike. The firm's poor labor-management relations brought on both bad publicity and a union boycott of Coors products...