Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody in the country has gone crazy about saving something," grins a happy member of Biddle's staff. Two Los Angeles burlesque houses want recognition as cultural monuments. Sheridan, Wyo., has saved Buffalo Bill's favorite saloon. Baltimore is trying to protect Babe Ruth's home. West Virginia would enshrine the father of Mother's Day. In Jackson, Tenn., Engineer Casey Jones's trackside bungalow is a museum. And Hartford, Conn., has a renovated stable proudly boasting: "George Washington's horse slept here...
...side activities began with Yomiuri, in fact, after the paper's president, Matsutaro Shoriki, decided to bring Babe Ruth and other baseball stars to Japan for a tour in 1934. The tour was a hit and raised the paper's circulation by 50,000, though Shoriki was stabbed by an ultranationalist who took offense when the Americans played ball on the grounds of a Shinto shrine. Last October Shoriki, now 83, staged an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures and invited the Dalai Lama to attend. When he arrived, Red China got so angry at this "sinister activity" that...
...returned kickoffs and punts--for an average of 22 yards apiece--and nearly broke loose on one punt return in the second quarter, which he managed to carry back 50 yards. In the final period, with the game already decided, Leo caught a 27-yard pass from Babe Parilli for a touchdown, one of the few sunny moments for the Patriots in a long afternoon...
Lest we forget, these men are peculiarly American monsters. Mayer, through dialog, and director Thomas Babe through blocking, try two things simultaneously: to recreate the detail and language of the period, and to define a kind of American epic...
...Babe directs Mayer's 31 scene opus with intelligence and precision, drawing on several different dramatic conventions. His brilliant blocking evokes the period with character groupings resembling Thomas Nast cartoons of contemporary editorial pages, and antiquated melodramatic woodcuts. Three major scenes are mimed in front of a black-and-white American flag, and it perfectly into the even pacing of the play. The most dazzling of Babe's devices concern the scene transitions, all of which are visibly effected by uniformed stagehands, and generally overlap with the action. Climactically, we watch the stage crew change a living room...