Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their team had just been clobbered in a do-or-die season finale, 50,000-plus Oriole fans were on their feet. As thunderous cheers slowly filled the cavernous confines of Memorial Stadium, a tiny, rumpled imp of a man emerged from one of the dugouts to take a bow. His tried face beat back tears--the visible signs of an emotion the fans had never really seen in him before...
...With his bow tie, manicured beard, debaucher's lips and a forehead that recedes in disapproving furrows almost to the collar line, Paul Bartel looks like the last surviving member of the Preston Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) sped moviegoers giddily through World War II, might appreciate Bartel's continuance of that tradition, as actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll...
...achievements. He was able to fill his people with the pride and courage to first defy, then change a society that demeaned and degraded them. As a Black janitor said after the completion of the Montgomery bus boycott, "We got our heads up now and we won't ever bow down again no sir except before...
...third row shouted "I can't take it any longer," stripped off his clothes and joined them onstage. During the final number. "Let the Sunshine In," the whole audience is invited up. Last Tuesday, they reached their goal and got the entire audience on stage. The cast refuses to bow at the end of Hair because they feel that it widens the gap between the audience and the actors which the cast has worked throughout to bridge...
Witnesses said the man had spent part of last night in the Bow and Arrow Pub on Bow...