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...much as the turning of a fresh page, young Mario loved the clean connection of ball and bat. He was a natural athlete. Baseball was his calling; he was a centerfielder, a more compact, combative version of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Cuomo was good enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates to sign him for a $2,000 bonus to play in their Class D Georgia-Florida League. A scouting report prepared at the time singled out Cuomo for his talent and his aggressiveness: "He is another who will run over you if you get in his way." Once, when a catcher...
...much physical as historical. Up close, she's an awesome sight. Her three sets of 16-in. guns, tooled more than four decades ago, are still, in the age of Star Wars, compelling instruments of destruction. They will hurl a projectile that is the equivalent in weight of a compact pickup truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with...
Abrahamson said much of the research is basedon developing compact systems that will berelatively inexpensive compared to presenttechnology. He said that among the scientificbreakthroughs associated with the research is thedevelopment of "gallium arsonide" which willreplace silicon chips in the next generation ofcomputers
Both economic efficiency and simple fairness demand that the damages inflicted by canines--now borne solely by Yard pedestrians--be reassigned to the dog owners. I propose that those who operate these compact waste factories incur the full costs of their activity by contributing to a University "Superfund." With this money, Harvard could hire clean-up crews, as well as reimburse students for dry cleaning bills, shoe shines, and Lysol...
...pumping out more of the "Felliniesque," his trademark blend of the grotesque and the surreal, than we need to get his point that TV is vulgar and coarsening. More moving is his presentation of two carefully imagined archetypes of aging. Masina's Amelia is a woman grown more emotionally compact with the years, defending herself against their onslaught with a sort of neat, perky reserve. Mastroianni's Pippo represents the opposite extreme, vulnerable dishevelment. She wins sympathy by asking no favors; he gains it by begging for it. These are lovely performances, observant, original and infinitely appealing. When...