Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much by the skin of the face and the soles of the feet as by the ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal. It did not matter. The joyous uproar continued, out of the ballpark and into the night. For hours, the capital city's Avenida Corrientes reverberated with sound. Rhythmic horn honking blared from miles of jammed-up and flatulating cars and trucks, inside of and on top of which roosted thousands of happy Argentines, waving their white-and-blue flags and shouting. From...
...responded by drilling a 1-0 delivery deep and high to left-center, but Gehman circled under in front of the deep fence here at the Double-A ballpark and hauled...
...missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first intrudes on them the house madame calls him an "invert"--he begins to just hang around, looking less like a sinister voyeur than a dazed peanut vendor at a ballpark. The scene where he finally admits his love for Violet lacks both preparation and emotion: I'm all yours, Violet," he says--but Carradine doesn't seem to be all there. Occasionally he is testy and impetuous, presumably because all artists should be temperamental. But his fits express less the mercurial...
Harvard's Mike Stenhouse and Columbia's Mike Wilhite currently reign as the sultans of swat in the Ivy League and in a few years both might lord over an outfield satrapy in a big league ballpark...
...hopeful forecast of 11.75 million cars to be sold in the U.S. this year. That would be handsomely above the 11.1 million units sold in 1977, and even ahead of the record 11.4 million cars sold in 1973. Most other auto executives' predictions are in Murphy's ballpark, though not quite so far up in the bleachers. Even industry analysts on Wall Street, who are generally less optimistic than the automen, see a good if not great year ahead, with sales well above 10 million vehicles...