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Word: batted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry was an audacious interpretation: the artist as manic-depressive child. Henry is, after all, a little boy in love with the sound of his own mind. He has every right to be infatuated: his pinwheel brain turns ideas into seductive images. He can pick up a cricket bat and find in its sprung wood a metaphor for the well-made play: "What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about the intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stoppard in the Name of Love | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...best cricket bat anyone has written in years. - By Richard Corliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stoppard in the Name of Love | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...SOMEWHAT SURPRISING that taping scandals did not ring a bell in President Reagan's mind, when he went to bat for Charles Wick last week. As usual, though, the President showed surprisingly little grasp of the serious implications of a member of his staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out, Out | 1/10/1984 | See Source »

...persuaded Reagan to appoint him as Clark's successor until Presidential Counsellor Ed Meese and other hard-liners sabotaged his bid. His pique and frustration may have made him receptive to job offers. "The fact that Baker has not knocked this story down with a baseball bat," says one associate, "shows that it's still a possibility." For their part, the baseball owners announced that Bowie Kuhn would stay on as commissioner until March 1, and that they could not determine when his successor would be named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hardball | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...think of a woman's suffering a broken leg when another crowd of 1,000 turned violent after waiting eight hours to get into a Zayre store in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Departmental Manager William Shigo could provide no explanation either. He armed himself with a baseball bat to defend his position behind the counter. Said he: "Get back, you're breaking my legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Cabbage Patch Craze | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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