Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody expected very much from the film, but to an America just emerging from the Depression the story of the Hardy family was a symbol of what was best in the country. MGM quickly scheduled sequels, and in 1939 and 1940 Mickey was the box office king, bigger than Gable or Tracy. He made $5,000 a week -in real dollars. His teen-age escapades became staples of the gossip columns, and the studio hired a male duenna to keep him in line. That was not easy, and when he was 21, Mickey took his first wife, an unknown actress...
...World Series against the American League Champion Baltimore Orioles brought the Pirates a full measure of good days and bad days, but the last and best day belonged to Willie Stargell. In a dramatic seventh game, Stargell hit the home run that won the world championship for Pittsburgh and with it MVP honors for himself for the second time in as many weeks. At 38, the Pirates' captain batted .400, drove in seven runs and pounded three home runs, adding four doubles to set a World Series record for extra-base hits. Perhaps more crucial, the imposing but soft...
...mound by a ragtag collection of starting relievers, relieving starters and the ubiquitous Tekulve, who iced the last two Pi rate wins by facing 15 batters and giving up just one single. In the final three games, Baltimore scored only two runs, while Pittsburgh mowed down Baltimore's best...
...problems begin with the choice of material. Cheever's best stories are not merely chronicles of upper-middle-class life, but Kafkaesque tragedies about what happens when a rigorously ordered world starts to go mad. Instead of dramatizing tales from the two major Cheever story collections, The Enormous Radio and The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, PBS has selected trifles from The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. These are then stretched out to fill an hour each...
...perpetually thwarted in the expression of his moral outrage. But the notion that his music's meaning could be made intelligible to Stalin, or to anyone else, was only a comforting illusion. Stalin, like all Russia's other tyrants, held an attitude toward the arts that was best summed up by a bureaucrat in a story by the 19th century satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: "What I do not understand is dangerous for the state...