Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Golden Age...
...would park his stand right next to the field; my first pair of cleats; a real blue-and-yellow uniform; and Richie Rivera, the meanest pitcher in our league. While everyone else was 10 or 11 years old, Richie was 12 and very big for his age. Once, he was so mad at himself that he hit a batter in the shoulder with a fastball so he could leave the game. That batter...
Long before young Brooklyn-born Allen Konigsberg had sold his first joke or even dreamed of making a film, he was scouring record stores in search of New Orleans music. Woody first caught the bug at age 14, when he happened to hear a Saturday-morning radio show devoted to Bechet, one of the all-time great clarinet and soprano saxophone players. "I heard it, and it just sounded wonderful," he recalls. "It was sort of like an opening of the dike." With the facility for self-teaching that he would later demonstrate as writer and filmmaker, he laid...
Buyers also like the idea of the specialty shop. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, the shop in Los Angeles that was featured in Out on a Limb, the TV-movie version of Shirley MacLaine's autobiography, is a pit stop for New Age readers who find that titles like Where Are You Going? help them get in touch with their feelings. The National Intelligence Book Center, which only the most persistent sleuth can find (in an appropriately nondescript Washington building), confines itself to publications on spies and spying; the customers, insists director Elizabeth Bancroft, are mostly professional spooks, who practically need...
...officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...