Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitch and volume, his eyeballs bulge and dart forcefully as he spells out his voint. And Sunday, he was bolder than usual, after driving in four runs on two singles, and beating a right field throw to second base with a chin-first belly slide. Kansas City didn't count him as a base-running threat...
...amounted almost to national amnesia. Two or three years ago, literary agents would tell their writers: "I can sell anything you do, but not about Viet Nam." Except for a foolishly frisky little combat comedy called The Boys in Company C, Hollywood would not touch the war-unless you count John Wayne's 1968 Green Berets, which might as well have been produced by William Westmoreland. As Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) put it several years ago, "I don't believe the war in Viet Nam can be treated in a 'popular film.' We have...
...back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies in the area is too numerous to count...
...Berklee Performance Center with nationally acclaimed tap dancer Leon Collins and the spirited Danny Sloan Dance Company. Sloan features a repertory of jazz, ethnic, modern and ballet, while Collins, who teaches at the Harvard Dance Center, has toured nationally with the Jimmy Lunceford Band, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Saturday night's bill will also include the Jassin' Singers and the Joel Press Jazz Quartet, both of which are local groups who regularly perform new works. The festival will receive a strong kickoff Friday night when world-famous ballet dancer Edward Villella hosts the opening reception at Bonwit Teller...
...after Christmas 1976, John Louis Evans and a friend he met in prison, Wayne Ritter, rented an Oldsmobile Cutlass and went on a spree. By Evans' count, the pair committed 37 robberies, two extortions and nine kidnapings. When they got to Mobile, Ala., Evans shot a pawnbroker in the back while the victim's two daughters, aged 7 and 9, looked on. It was all a "deadly game," says Evans. "I was planning on dying. I would never go back to prison...