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...only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that the base runner on first would think he was glancing over. King got the idea from wearing two left sneakers in basketball games so that the defender could never tell which way Clyde was going by looking at his feet. Most sports are played this...
...Number of Democratic candidates on the 1984 New Hampshire primary ballot: Eight--Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Ernest Hollings, Alan Cranston, Reuben Askew, and George McGovern...
...special qualities about Matthews' paintings is that they can be hung in a variety of ways; upside down, sideways, and askew. One work hung as a diamond, the other a square. Even as he was showing the paintings, Matthews fiddled with their positions, rehanging both as squares. "See, it is a whole different picture," he says. "You get tired of paintings. With these you can hang them new ways to get new pictures. You can't do that with landscapes," Matthews, a collector himself, says...
...idealist's "excessive righteousness" combines with the Bomb to make Schlesinger reluctantly "apocalyptic," provoking him to his deepest moments. Nearly 25 years ago, he wrote that "history has always seemed to me primarily an art, a branch of literature." Today his neatly combed hair mussed, his bow tie askew, as it were, he writes with a new passion, as a vigorous elder concerned that the earth survive for future generations. It is an irony that he would be the first to appreciate: when he sounds least like a liberal, he sounds most like a historian, and an artist...
...traders, their neckties askew, craned toward banks of screens where blinking green numbers showed that the Big Board had struggled through the busiest day in its history. While the Dow was taking its 86.61-point dive, to 1792.89, trading volume on the New York Exchange hit 237.6 million shares, surpassing the previous record of 236.5 million reached...