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...preferred the tuckel-and-dime and dime attack. Even last year, with an incredibly powerful team. Nahigian played for one run at a time. Elliott Rivera, whose 300 1983 average is tops among returning regulars, sacrificed 19 times, more than two out of every three times he came to bat with a runner on and nobody...
...when went on to stress the need to "find some selectively specific guidelines" for behavior of professors, but stopped at giving any more details. And when he was asked to elaborate on a specific point--about the possibility of giving more publicity to harassment cases-Bok stepped in to bat the question always, annoying that "this is his first day" and that Spence seeded some more background on the issue...
...band tour in the spring of 1980, Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban born and Cuban bred, was at the airport, bag packed as usual for another gig. Inside his luggage, however, was a carefully weighted assortment of stones, an army boot and a piece of a baseball bat. By the time the bag was stashed on the plane, D'Rivera was on his way into Madrid, planning his route to the American embassy. Quite a nice piece of amateur cold warring, all things considered. New World, Third World, it makes no difference to the music...
Even the scientists are portrayed with an astonishing diversity of styles; at different times Van Loon pictures Francis Crick and James Watson, discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA, as Bat. In addition, the comic book format in the only one in which the arcane and often ridiculous jargon of molecular biology makes sense...
...best cricket bat anyone has written in years. - By Richard Corliss...