Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, though lively and often imaginative, New West seems to be haunted by a Felkerian phantom: its editors on occasion run the kind of features they feel would have been whipped up by Felker. The results can be disastrous. A notable example was a cover story in July based on the premise that since Governor Jerry Brown was 39 and unmarried (though a frequent companion of Linda Ronstadt's), he would be a likely target for antihomosexual smears in next year's gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said...
Coover's 534-page opus hangs-and strangles-on a premise that might have sustained a passable college skit. Uncle Sam and the Phantom (i.e., Communism) are engaged in a life-and-death struggle for control of the world. Sam was doing swell at the end of World War II, but it is now 1953, and the Phantom possesses, among other things, mainland China and the atomic bomb. The Rosenbergs, tried and found guilty of helping the enemy get the bomb, must be exorcised as spectacularly as possible so that the light from their electrocution can combat the Phantom...
...most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert De Niro, the phantom of the cinema, strikes again...
...perspiring. Her left fist kayoes phantom adversaries in the air. Candidate Carter promised a federal takeover of welfare, and Candidate Abzug would hold him to it. "The city of New York has to organize and seek coalitions of the people, and mayors, and Governors and members of Congress and labor and the banks to insist that there is a national movement, and we in the city of New York need a billion dollars to take care of our streets, our teachers, our sanitation, our housing, our hospitals, our senior centers, our child-care centers...
Riding its phantom win streak, Cal State pulled the stunt in its CWS opener, sending the fans into hysterics and the No. 2-ranked Minnesota Gophers to the showers, 7-4. Fans piled into the stadium an hour before Cal State games to witness the ritual, but the Diabalos kept their honor, abandoning the act once the win streak was broken by Lewis of South Carolina, 6-2. Cal State was eventually eliminated by Southern Illinois 9-7, after coughing up a five-run lead...