Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young Director Ace Tyro has toiled for three years to complete his widescreen, R-rated indictment of major league baseball, All That Yaz. Its original running time: 135 minutes. But Tyro decides to cut five minutes for the premiere, and another five minutes after the first week of its release. He adds 20 minutes for the European version. For airplane showings the movie is softened to get a PG rating and cut to two hours flat; the airline projectors can hold only that much film...
...Houston Astros, who have stayed in the struggle for the N.L. West crown, despite the loss of staff ace and fireballer J.R. Richard, Nor can Mark Fidrych, a/k/a the Bird before Larry ever dribbled into Boston, who made his reappearance last night against the Sox, Nor can the Baltimore Orioles, who stubbornly refuse to concede the A.L. East title to the Yankees. Nor can the Pittsburgh Pirates, who despite Dave Parker's expressed discontent, seem determined to thwart the Montreal Expos' effort to become the first Canadian assemblage to win a divisional baseball crown...
...Canadian Ace Billy Bishop shot down 72 enemy aircraft in World War I, 25 in an astonishing ten-day burst. Baron Manfred von Richthofen was first in kills with 80. The irony is that Bishop was not a very skillful flyer and received severe reprimands for cracking up Royal Flying Corps planes...
...dull, gray morning in Bucharest. Two citizens enter a district city hall to exchange perfunctory "Da's " as required by law. Switch to Technicolor. Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, in a blue blazer, no headband, and his love of four years, Rumanian Pro Mariana Simionescu, step outside into the bright sunlight and a cheering crowd of 2,000. Among them are 50 members of the Rumanian National Tennis Federation, who raise flower-bedecked racquets in a ceremonial arch. Kiss, smile, applause. Exeunt the couple in a Swedish Saab. Scene 2-Religious Ceremony. An unruly mob awaits the Borgs' arrival...
...course, Zos was not the only ingredient in this spring's successful formula, but his clutch performances in crucial contests gave the Crimson a stopper. After the loss to graduation of 1979 staff ace Larry Brown (now with the Houston Astros organization), it looked like Harvard might have to suffer a season without a hurler who could provide consistently strong performances. Zos stepped into the role easily...