Word: californianism
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...feel sorry for is the next batter, Bruce Shepherd, the intended victim of this strategy. Actually, you can understand why the Dudley hurler, who wishes to remain anonymous for reasons that will be readily apparent when I continue with this story, preferred to face Shepherd, a cocky Californian whose fielding average is lower than his batting average and whose credibility rises and falls with the price of stock in Del Webb...
Steve Baloff, the lanky Californian with the oh-so-nasty slider, won his first game up North and raised his overall record to 3-0 with a strong four-hit, eight-strikeout outing in six and two-thirds innings. Lefty Billy Bradshaw came on in the seventh to hurl the last out of the game...
...Billie Jean and I broke up ultimately because it became unbearable," the veteran Californian said last night. "Everyone was out to beat us and it just wasn't fun any more...
...first major exhibition of its kind ever mounted in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is showing 33 pieces of "New Stained Glass," devoted to small, "personal" works by leading artists that range from Miroesque abstraction to ribald political satire. One offbeat work by Californian Richard Posner, 29, is called The Big Enchilada 1975; it depicts in allegorical terms the White House infighting over Watergate. A similar show at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles drew 2,000 people on weekends, while another recent exhibition in the Washington suburb of Reston was jammed during its six-week...
...being tortured with cattle prods while still dripping from a shower. According to Stark, some prisoners told of extortion demands of up to $40,000 by Mexican lawyers promising to get them released. Before he was transferred from Mexico City's Santa Marta prison, Frank Machado, 29, a Californian who has served five years for smuggling cocaine, said, "I got my nose broken and my eyes split open the first week. That was the cons' way of letting me know I had to pay protection...