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...well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later...
...under the daily pressure of second-guessing managers and players, Angell is free to revel in his enthusiasm for the game and to share with us his observations and exuberance. Five Seasons is Angell's second baseball compendium, or "companion," as he terms it; the first, The Summer Game, was an immense critical and popular success. The earlier book argued in breathtakingly convincing fashion the superiority of baseball to other American sports. Specifically, Angell cited the way in which baseball constructs its own temporal and spatial realities, its distinctive and relaxed pace that permits the spectator to gain a complete...
...after a few innings, when the downstairs ushers have stopped checking tickets, you try to sneak down to the grandstand. This has long been my modus operandi at Yankee Stadium and at Fenway. But I hadn't reckoned on the rather unique security procedures in Anaheim. As my companion and I approached the escalator to make our descent, we noticed two private guards chasing away two teen-agers who had attempted to do the same. The guards had revolvers. We acknowledged them with meek smiles, and returned to our seats, somewhere in Burbank...
Born. To Diana Rigg, 38, auburn-haired Shakespearean actress best known as the karate-chopping counterspy in TV's The Avengers, and Archie Stirling, 35, a businessman and her companion for a year: their first child, a girl; in London...
...period; of an apparent heart attack after returning from the Cannes Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...