Word: jacksonism
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...wish I could be a Yankee fan. I gave it up years ago, toward the end of the Reggie Jackson era. It was a great team then - Jackson, Winfield and the rest. I loved to watch Willie Randolph - slick, perfect, self-contained - at second. But there was the intolerable Steinbrenner, and you paid a price in the stands. A drunk always showered beer on you from the second deck and games with the Boston Red Sox would degenerate into tribal brawls after the sixth inning, when everyone had had enough suds to be a real moron...
...show "Your Big Break," another game-show import from Britain, which comes on after "Saturday Night Live." People come on the show in ordinary clothes, go behind a screen of smoke and emerge dressed as the singer they're about to try to sing like-Patsy Cline, Elvis, Janet Jackson, you get the idea...
...year-old kids are too young to be involved in the entertainment business. Even those with a rudimentary sense of pop music history could probably come up with a litany of names of child stars who went on to lead shattered lives. Take the calamitous life of Michael Jackson for example. When the Jackson Five first began touring in 1962, Jackie was 11, Tito was nine, Jermaine was eight, Marlon was five and Michael was only four. Although Michael Jackson reached unparalleled solo superstardom after his Jackson Five days, his early inception into the world of celebrity cost him more...
...drop out if the Yankees don't win," quipped Eliot House resident Osborne A. Jackson...
...think the priority should be necessarily to make the campus a showcase of the latest architectural trends," says John Jackson, a third-year student of architecture...