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...Asians know you cannot play cricket, but Ping Pong is not your game either. Stick to baseball, Uncle...
There is, however, excess calculation, both in Pinter's dialogue, and in the director's conceptions of entire scenes. Though the annual village cricket match is admirably staged, with flies swarming over ossified onlookers, and the Maudsleys running with grace and dignity, Burgess predictably hits a cricket home run every time at bat. And Pinter cannot deal with direct emotional response: a crucial Burgess-Leo dialogue is embarassing. B: "She cried when she couldn't see me." L: "How do you know?" B: "She cried when...
Died. Lord Constantine, 69, onetime West Indian cricket star and the first black man to sit in Britain's House of Lords; of a heart attack; in London. The son of a sugar-plantation foreman, Learie Constantine led the renowned West Indian cricket team to victory over the English in 1928, later left the playing field for a public service career. Knighted and made Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner in London in 1962, he was raised to the peerage two years...
...Spain in a carnival shirt embroidered with the words PING PONG SAMBA. A loudspeaker blared, "Come out by the thousands and vote. Mothers, we are counting on you." Mothers and others merely "limed" (loafed) under pink-blossomed poui trees in Queen's Park, however, or watched a cricket match...
...CRIMSON isn't all viewing. At the founder's meeting in 1873, one of the Crimson bylaws read, "... and ye shall strive, with each and every extension of your muscular endeavor, to rejoice in accomplishing 100 undefeated seasons of cricket." The CRIMSON still needs three more perfect softball records to let the original editors' souls rest in peace...