Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty as the art of animation...
...much as the turning of a fresh page, young Mario loved the clean connection of ball and bat. He was a natural athlete. Baseball was his calling; he was a centerfielder, a more compact, combative version of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Cuomo was good enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates to sign him for a $2,000 bonus to play in their Class D Georgia-Florida League. A scouting report prepared at the time singled out Cuomo for his talent and his aggressiveness: "He is another who will run over you if you get in his way." Once, when a catcher...
Wallace Keith Joyner, nearly 24 but as callow as a bat boy, is the latest contribution from Brigham Young University to the world's sweatshops. Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon and Boston Celtics Guard Danny Ainge may be hard to think of as latter-day saints, but Joyner is easily pictured on the side of the Angels, a paragon on the order of Atlanta Outfielder Dale Murphy. The gray manager of the Angels, Gene Mauch, 60, says, "Joyner has a graceful way about him, at bat, on the field and in the clubhouse...
...since Noel Coward . . . well, has a comic dramatist written vernacular dialogue this smart this fast. Hughes has been known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part...
...slugger hit a little broken-bat flare into right that dropped in for a run-scoring single. Don Baylor and Tony Armas (who raised his average 40 points with his four-hit performance) follwed with back-to-back doubles to put the Sox up 5-0 and send Viola to the showers...