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...alias Dizzy, who threw baseballs for a living for the St. Louis Cardinals in the days when a free agent was just an unemployed spy, knew more about the sporting life in America than most people who get paid to write about it. Dean was a self-professed country bumpkin with a fearsome fastball that more than made up for his scrambled syntax, but even when his arm died he still knew how to play the game. One day in the tail end of his career he found himself on first base as a pinch runner in the late innings...
...surer signs of summer is the arrival of the annual Burt Reynolds country-and-western movie. Like their musical counterparts, these bumpkin epics (Gator and W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings) deal in broad comedy and simple emotions. Generally they just place their hero in one or more fast-moving vehicles while motivating one or more square characters to give chase to him. Between crashes, Reynolds is given a series of wisecracks that establish his basic screen character-shrewd, laid-back, a tad reckless and a devil with women...
...until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians overthrow of the republic. Luke is an irresistible figure, the country bumpkin with just the right touch of idealism and star-struck awe to endear him to any audience. He saves the day of course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signalling...
...midst of a fray of adequate imitation Elizabethan costumes, topped off by sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets...
...night," John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, reminisces about his days as a Winthrop House tutor in The Age of Uncertainty, his most recent book. In Galbraith's days, breakfast served as an integral part of that great Harvard educational institution, the dining hall, where many a bumpkin has learned grace, style and the art of fine conversation. Today, meals later in the day fill that role, and breakfast consists of a quick, watery egg to keep you going till lunch. All the same, when Dean Fox announced that only four Houses would serve hot breakfasts next year...