Word: slammed
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Money made as regal a figure as Jack Nicklaus fling a putter a few weeks back in his alltime display of rapture over an eight-footer, not to win the grand slam, not even to clinch a 20th major championship, but to publicize a condominium development in Arizona at a made-for-TV golf tournament. Ben Hogan would never have wet his pants over such a glory, but there are levels of ego in this. When Bjorn Borg slipped merely to second, ahead of everyone but John McEnroe, Borg had to go. Eleven years removed from his No. 1 rating...
...participates in a completely irrelevant scene that epitomizes the defects in the story line. Nigel, dressed in a grey leather jumpsuit, visits Selena's amusement park hideout, and asks her right-hand woman Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro) to summon Selena Selena appears, both women insult Cooke's suit, and they slam the door in his face...
CHICAGO --Tony Pena hit a grand slam homer to highlight Pittsburgh's six run sixth inning and Johnny Ray knocked in the winning run as the last-place Pirates routed the Chicago Cubs 11-6 last night...
...flashiest men's player was Jordan, the 6-ft. 6-in. University of North Carolina senior who has won six awards designating him America's best collegian. Born to dunk, he penetrated the zone defenses of opponents to slam at least one goal in each of the eight games. In the first half against hapless Uruguay he hit three dunks and his teammates had three more, vs. eight total field goals of any kind for the Uruguayans. He also hit from outside: in the preliminary game against Spain, he widened a narrow U.S. lead with...
There is not an editor in the solar system who would doubt that Tom Wolfe, 53, has very good stuff when it comes to writing slam-bang journalism. But Wolfe's newest project, a novel titled The Bonfire of the Vanities, is another story. Or is it? Rolling Stone magazine has signed him, for a $250,000-plus paycheck, to write Vanities in 27 cliffhanging installments, in the venerable tradition of Dickens, Zola and Dostoyevsky. The real cliffhanger is how long Wolfe can keep tapping the muse without missing an issue. "Two-week deadlines are very rough," admits...