Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long Arm...
...cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting the statistical record. "Those are the most dramatic cases," he adds. "Mostly we get kids with bruises whose parents hit them too much...
...Yankees, who lack farmclub talent, the team would have been crippled by the early-season miseries of Pitchers Don Gullett and Catfish Hunter had not the remarkable left arm of Ron Guidry saved the day. Guidry finished with 25 wins and just three losses, one of the best records in modern baseball history. There were other problems-there always are with the Yankees-but the team created by Owner George Steinbrenner's money managed to make one of the most remarkable comebacks in baseball history. New York rallied from 14 games behind the Boston...
...change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating plays would have made an ordinary third baseman's season, and together they unmade the Dodgers...
...passion or a world well lost for love. Antony (Alan Howard) and Cleopatra (Glenda Jackson) seem too much like old buddies, rather than old and reck less lovers. Jackson brings overflowing energy to the part. Physically she is mesmerizing. Playing the imperious Queen, she uses broad, almost sculptured arm gestures. A moment later she is running like a girl or jumping dervish-like in tight circles. But there are no pauses or silences here, and finally no intimacy with An tony. The characterization, for all its motion, is static...