Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the slow start, industry executives predict that how-to tapes will eventually catch on. "If you look at a bookstore," says Stuart Karl, president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette...
...prolific and delicately flavored fish, he says, "It doesn't sound like something you'd want to eat." Bill Demmond is not so sure. "Fishermen couldn't give away amberjack," he says. "Now it sells for $1 a pound wholesale. We can't keep enough seafood. If they catch it, we'll look at it, because if it swims, it's edible...
...even care. I embrace my wounds. I am St. Sebastian." He also answers to another name. A boy holds out an autograph book and later shows his grandfather the fat player's signature. The old man examines it knowledgeably: "Sure, I know him. He used to catch for the Pirates, years...
Enough to make Fathers Playing Catch with Sons an off-season refreshment. Hall is a bullpen man, not a starter. He is best over a short distance, writing verses about oldtimers' day ("On a green field/ we observe the ruin/ of even the bravest body") or recalling poets devoted to baseball. The game, he reveals, is not always an ennobling or enlightening muse. Walt Whitman covered some contests for the Brooklyn Eagle and in old age asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter...
...Constitutional amendment to institute, you'll probably never see the Springsteen concert while you'll just have to lower your standards. Check out that Pat Boone concert. Or how about The Cramps? The Circle Jerks might be in town. And if you get really desperate, you might want to catch a Harvard basketball game...