Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, those G.M.s are in Dallas for the annual baseball winter meetings, trading players just like I used to trade their cards. A left-handed pitcher for a righty slugger, a catcher who can hit for an ace reliever...
...report released last week by the AmericanCouncil of Education (ACE) found that thepercentage of Black high school students enteringcollege in 1985 plummeted more than 7 percent from1976 while the percentage of Hispanics fell 9percent...
...world, funky fashions and the navel engagements of the self-awareness movement confirmed Wolfe's originality. Unlike the reigning intellectuals of the day, he took American mass culture at face value, though not with a straight face. His New Journalism combined the skills and stamina of an ace reporter with the techniques of fiction, and it reached its peak in The Right Stuff, the 1979 recounting of the lives and times of the Mercury astronauts...
...keeps saying the farther they go. Their most remarkable comeback was against themselves -- rather, against the memory of the 1985 World Series. On the verge of a six-game victory over Kansas City, the Cardinals were deprived by an umpire's incorrect call at first base. Coming completely unhinged, Ace John Tudor punched a fan (the electric kind) the next day with his pitching hand, and St. Louis suffered the sort of loss that figured to be lasting. "We drew on our tradition to make it back," says Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but that doesn't mean I'm in favor...
Someone to Watch Over Me is Ridley Scott's first contemporary film. But the director of Alien knows about hostile environments; the director of Blade Runner knows how to mix sleaze and sleek; the director of Legend knows about the perils of passion. Scott is also an ace stylist, and set loose in New York City he creates a Deluxe color version of an Old Hollywood vision: Manhattan in the '40s, with its twin thrills of grandeur and menace. The sidewalks gleam like a Bakelite floor. A hired gun jogs into a Fifth Avenue foyer...