Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finished the season in tenth place. In 1967 they put players on the field like Charlie Smith, Ruben Amaro, Steve Whitaker and Horace Clarke. Whitaker was especially pathetic because he was one in a set of the "next Mickey Mantle" series. Whitaker came up to the Yankees, hit a cluster of home runs in his first week and then began to strike out. His collapse was awful to watch. Fortunately for him, not too many people came out to the park to look. Other "next Mickey Mantle" prototypes were Roger Repo, Bill Robinson and Bobby Murcer. But Whitaker handled...
...core of the good ole boy's world is with his buddies, the comfortable, hyperhearty, all-male camaraderie, joshing and drinking and regaling one another with tales of assorted, exaggerated prowess. Women are outsiders; when social events are unavoidably mixed, the good ole boys cluster together at one end of the room, leaving wives at the other. The GOB'S magic doesn't work with women; he feels insecure, threatened by them. In fact, he doesn't really like women, except...
...Reagan. Ford began zeroing in on Dole the week before the convention, but the only Administration insider who had a sense of how he was narrowing the field was Chief of Staff Cheney, his sole confidant on the decision. The tabulations of the partywide popularity contest showed a cluster of obvious names near the top?Connally, Reagan, Baker, Richardson, Rockefeller?but no overwhelming standout whom the President could reject only at the risk of antagonizing the party...
Nevertheless, the uncommitted are proving hard for Reagan to capture. A couple of weeks ago, he was speaking with his usual polished force to a small cluster of Illinois delegates. As he had done with other uncommitted, Reagan stressed his electability, his better chance of smoking out Jimmy Carter. But the staring faces showed little response. After a painful silence, Reagan went on talking. He told them he was less vulnerable than Ford to Democrats. When he finished, there was no applause, only more silence. Asked if he thought he had won over many of the delegates, Reagan shrugged: "They...
...embattled, that culture transcends politics, that abstract art speaks a language uncontaminated by ideology, that modernism somehow makes us free. Throughout the '50s and early '60s, the Biennale-that sprawl of art exhibitions devoted to the newest of the new, held every two years in a cluster of national pavilions beside the oily green waters of St. Mark's basin-was the symbol of that creed. In 1976 it is otherwise...