Word: balling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life, alas, is not a football game. It does not provide a goal line we can cross with cheers ringing in our ears, an end zone where we can spike the ball and do a victory dance. What it provides, in dizzying abundance, is one damned thing after another. This vividly expressed thought comes to us courtesy of Parenthood's Jason Robards, who plays Frank, the grandpaterfamilias of a clan he has considerable reason to wish he had not extended quite so extensively back when he was young and frisky...
...husband, father, provider and Little League manager that Frank never was. Gil's wise and patient wife (Mary Steenburgen) can deal with the pressure his anxious idealism generates, but his eight-year-old son cannot. The boy's school is insisting that special education is his only hope. His ball team is down on him because he keeps muffing easy pop-ups. Which, of course, makes Gil try even more unnervingly to be Superdad...
...signals take four hours to travel to earth. Still, scientists expect mounds of fresh data and some 8,000 photographic images, entirely new information about a little known object that is almost four times the size of earth but appears in earthly telescopes only as a fuzzy blue-green ball...
...while the weenie has spent the summer reading and I have spent the summer procrastinating (between beers, of course), Ken has spent the summer counting the number of minority fans at Fenway. Which, of course, doesn't distract him from Clemens' curve ball, or anything like that...
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