Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ryan, 28, first came up to the majors seven years ago with the New York Mets, potential was all he had. "I was in the big leagues because of my arm, not because I could pitch," he recalls in a languorous Texas drawl. "My idea of pitching was to throw as hard as you could." That he did, walking batters by the dozen. His difficulties were not eased by chronic blisters on his pitching fingers or long stints in the bullpen...
...room. I was more inclined to keep on and another guy I hadn't really talked to decided to go with me. His name was Bill and he seemed a little bit suspicious to me because he was awful young and all he had was a coat under his arm. But Bill assured me he had lots of experience hitching cross country and he showed it too by telling me right off that we couldn't hitch in Reno and anyway we'd pick up more traffic moving east if we walked to where the Reno bypass met up with...
...WRIST FLIP. The Frisbee is held behind the back, with the arm stiff, and is released while the player is leaping in the air, with much the same motion as a discus throw...
...call the action heavy-handed is an understatement. A knight in the forest bars the way for King Arthur and refuses to admit he is defeated even after Arthur slashes his arm off (blood spurts as if from a faucet); Arthur then chops his other arm off, and then each of his legs, before moving on. There's really nothing funny about it. The keynote of the humor is gore. Even in what may be the funniest moment of the film, when a small white rabbit guarding a cave catapults into the air and saws off a knight's head...
...other museum in the greater Boston area can bring these things together for teaching purposes," he asserts, sweeping his arm about the gallery, filled with textiles, enamels, paintings and drawings borrowed from collections from across New England. And on top of this, the Fogg is, according to John Rosenfield, chairman of the department of Fine Arts, "one of the greatest art museums in the world...