Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warner's hired Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand funny voices, most of them sounding like a Bronx sharpie with a case of adenoids. And somehow, over the next 25 years, they all kept getting better. "We wrote cartoons for grownups, that was the secret," said Jones' ace story man Michael Maltese in a 1971 interview. And they could behave "almost like children, making absolute idiots of ourselves. An outsider would see us and say, 'Well, for heaven's sake! Grown men!' But we understood...
Joaquin Andujar, pitching ace of the St. Louis Cardinal staff who last week became the season's first 20-game winner, was sitting in Dodger Stadium watching Los Angeles Outfielder Pedro Guerrero taking batting practice. Andujar's thoughts about the perennial .300 hitter went beyond the manicured Los Angeles diamond back to the rocky fields of San Pedro de Macoris, a hardscrabble town in the Dominican Republic where, as a teenager, he had first hurled fastballs and curves to Guerrero. Both Andujar, 32, and Guerrero, 29, are the sons of sugarmill workers, and there was little money. But, the pitcher...
...Spielberg's own episodes, an hourlong drama called The Mission, envelops its suspense in a visual style that suggests Rembrandt on Halloween. More important, it finds a new twist for the Spielberg credo: the miraculous power of the artistic imagination. This story of a World War II gunnery ace + who, in the author's provocative words, "literally paints himself out of a corner," is a fairy tale for the technocratic 20th century. It should be the first movie that Mom and Dad show to Max Samuel Spielberg...
...worked for four years as a groom for a farmer near Munich; how he had been mistakenly arrested by Italian authorities in 1949 in Genoa, then released three weeks later with friendly apologies; and how he was assisted in South America by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Luftwaffe ace and unrepentant Nazi with connections to Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Nonetheless, the magazine was hedging its bets until three special investigators it had hired had checked the authenticity of all the material at hand. Norbert Sakowski, Bunte's deputy editor in chief, said that he was convinced the documents were genuine...
...took the West German only 25 minutes to finish the job. He broke Pfister's serve for a 4-3 lead and held on for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory, winning the match with a blistering ace...