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...Watch out at the Leverett 80s Dance. You’ll be livin’ on a prayer when you get diagnosed with Persistive Vegetative Syndrome...
Wannop initially studied the impact of the 1970s and 80s corporate responsibility movement on Harvard, but eventually he gained insight into the business end of the University, a side most students are barely aware of, much less scrutinize. “It allowed me to learn about how Harvard works. There’s not a bureaucracy at this school,” Wannop said...
...explosion of offense in the 1920s and ’30s, an expansion that continued through the postwar years until it was checked by the resurrection of dominant pitching in the ’60s and ’70s. The uneasy truce of the ’80s was shattered in the early ’90s, when the greatest period of home run tyranny began. How can one tell that the tide is now turning, that the precession of the baseball equinoxes has reached another critical point of transition...
...eager to share their advantages with less well-endowed clubs, like the Seattle Mariners. They argue, with some justification, that the prices they paid to get into the game reflected their lucrative market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners can simply buy the better players. Since winning is the best way to draw fans to the park and sponsors to TV and radio, the poor just get poorer. The Cleveland Indians, for example, have managed to hold salaries down to less than half the league average, but they...
Ruth is a woman both of her time and out of it. Like a 1950s moll, she indulges men's fantasies of the blond bombshell; like an '80s woman, she is spikily determined to come to them on her own terms. This sexy, witty film has the texture of a '50s B movie: these are small, doomed people viewed unsentimentally as they take their sport in cramped bedrooms or walk along soot-swathed streets with murder in their eyes. Though Richardson has the showstopper part, Holm is the class act here. With his finicky mustache and sad, knowing eyes...