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...desire to know. "Seeing the white boys up close in kindergarten was a traumatic event. I must have seen some before in magazines or books but never in the flesh. I approached one, felt his hair, scratched at his cheek, he hit me in the head with a baseball bat. They found me crumpled in a heap just outside the schoolyard fence...
...excess calculation, both in Pinter's dialogue, and in the director's conceptions of entire scenes. Though the annual village cricket match is admirably staged, with flies swarming over ossified onlookers, and the Maudsleys running with grace and dignity, Burgess predictably hits a cricket home run every time at bat. And Pinter cannot deal with direct emotional response: a crucial Burgess-Leo dialogue is embarassing. B: "She cried when she couldn't see me." L: "How do you know?" B: "She cried when...
...call and a near free-for-all over an exchange of beanballs resulted in two players from each team being thrown out of the game. Next night, the Giants rebounded long enough to take a 5-3 lead into the ninth inning. Then some more strange things, a broken-bat single, a blooper over second and a bunt, loaded the bases for the Dodgers. Then Leftfielder Manny Mota connected for a bases-clearing double and a 6-5 victory for Los Angeles...
After watching the Giants' once commanding lead cut to one slim game, Manager Charlie Fox seemed all but spooked. "How in God's name could they be so lucky?" he exclaimed. "They win with broken-bat hits, handle hits, bunts just barely out of reach, hits off the end of the bat, balls that hit the rim of the Astroturf carpet and hop funny. But luck has got to come back to us now. It's impossible for things to continue going the way they have for them." Not necessarily. The Dodgers of late have been making...
Ever since Bela Lugosi went to bat in Dracula, the vampire has been a favorite of American horror-movie cultists. But even they will find little nourishment in Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Technology is partly to blame. Once electric lights are substituted for candles, the ghosts no longer hold sway; a car is no proper substitute for the creaky carriage and pair. The plot, however, is a lineal descendant of the Bram Stoker original...