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...independence and then trying to break back into the league from which they have been summarily shut out by the owners. For social significance, the movie includes a player who functions as a sort of Jackie Robinson surrogate. For contrast there is Richard Pryor, an actor-comedian of buckshot brilliance. Pryor calculates every line and gesture for small, explosive effect, and his aim stays true. He shows up here as Charlie Snow, a third baseman who hopes to break into big-league ball by passing himself off as a Cuban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Infield Hit | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...least three Winthrop House residents had an unpleasant surprise at dinner Tuesday night, when they discovered buckshot in their meat...

Author: By William J. Callahan, | Title: Biting the Bullet | 12/12/1975 | See Source »

Davis said he did not know where the buckshot came from, but that the Purchasing Department will conduct an investigation in an attempt to prevent any future occurrences of this type...

Author: By William J. Callahan, | Title: Biting the Bullet | 12/12/1975 | See Source »

...Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that has prompted President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to call Amin "a madman" and "a buffoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Big Mouth | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Because he stutters badly, Hoagland does most of the listening. He greatly admires self-reliance and know-how: the man who minces lead pipe to make his own buckshot and carries bottle caps filled with wax to kindle his fire on wet nights, the man who keeps his canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Inner Outback | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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