Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Break the crutch, take off the poultice...
...Spring cascade down from on high all over my typewriter, my horse, and my moped (you can't forget the moped--have you bought yours yet?), I can't resist the urge to wax a little nostalgic, to be a little self-serving for once. I remember the first break I got here this fall. I was just another junior--a regular sort, interested mostly in tutorial papers and chasing mopeds. And then one day, a little magazine that I'm sure you're familiar with hit the newsstands for the first time. The magazine was Padan Aram...
...spares the obvious potential for social statements in the black and Puerto Rican casting, limiting trendiness to the score. Shakespeare's plot remains largely intact, with its orderly parallels between pairs of individuals. There are the skeptics towards love, Julia and Valentine, and those who use seductive wiles to break them, Proteus and Silvia. There are the two masters and the two servants, each couple bound in friendship though capable of deceit. And then there's the dog Crab, who qualifies for both categories. The mutt is not only ungrateful for the constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies...
...baseball franchises, these salaries are not unreasonable. Of course, other players of far less proficiency receive in excess of $100,000 per year. These men are cashing in on the owners' paranoia that all their players will desert for greener wallets. The wave they are riding will soon break when management realizes that .250 hitters are a dime a dozen, certainly not worth $150,000 per year...
...five satellite teams into fewer clubs of elevated quality would successfully reduce total expenses. This move, in fact, may be a blessing in disguise to the hundreds of players who spend years in the minors, bouncing around from Little Rock to Chattanooga to Tallahassee, waiting for the big break, the nod from up top. Most finally realize that their day in the big leagues will never come, and they go home, embittered and weary...