Word: bando
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dustin Hoffman was a raw ingenue in Tootsie. Though only 33, Bando is already a master onnagata, a man who plays female roles in the centuries-old art of Kabuki. So apposite are his opposite-sex portrayals that he is the object of study by aspiring actresses and real-life geishas seeking to refine their feminine ways. "To act as an onnagata, "he says, "is to try to create an ideal; what I as a man would consider to be the ideal woman." Bando has also done non-Kabuki work, including heralded performances as Lady Macbeth and Desdemona...
...Chicago Cubs signed free-agent pitchers Ferguson Jenkins and Bill Campbell and traded pitcher Mike Krukow to Philadelphia for pitchers Dickie Noles and Dan Larson and catcher Keith Moreland. In other baseball news, Brewers third baseman and designated hitter Sal Bando officially announced his retirement, the Red Sox extended manager Ralph Houk's contract until 1984, and George Steinbrenner has signed manager Bob Lemon to "a lifetime contract in the organization" that includes managing the Yankees...
...innings, giving up just four hits while fanning ten. Only in the fourth, after Piniella had put the Yanks on top with his solo shot into the left field bleachers in the top half of the inning, did Righetti run into trouble, yielding a lead-off single to Sal Bando. Bando moved to second as Ted Simmons grounded out, but Righetti struck out Gorman Thomas and Ben Ogilvie to retire the side...
...Brewers did not threaten again until the seventh inning. Ron Davis, the winner of Wednesday night's game, came on in relief of the visibly tired Righetti and induced Bando to pop out to start the inning...