Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every few weeks we were rewarded with a Red Sox game on television. The bad part about watching NBC, however, was enduring the mouths of Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola. Ever since Gowdy began to believe that the Bosox were not going to fold in September, he has reminded the American public on the average of two or three times a broadcast how he spent fifteen years announcing Red Sox games. You couldn't escape from Garagiola on the other hand even during the commercials with everyone yelling "Attaboy, Joe" on the Dodge...
...ghosts of Curt Gowdy, Joe Garagiola, and the remainder of the NBC entourage stand on a raised platform in the middle of the room. Curt asks Yaz about the turning point in the Series. Joe asks Darrell Johnson how it feels to be a winner. Bill Lee asks Curt and Joe why they're asking such stupid questions...
...what if the Joe Garagiola-Curt Gowdy sports network could pan its cameras so as to make his locks bounce as he slid into third. To me his shorn head will always be the symbol of baseball's bad side. Hell, I'm not asking for a Ted Simmons or even an Oscar "High Hat" Gamble -- but Pete, cut us some slack. Let it grow...
...games with names at this level (a couple of greedy cowpokes named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like...
...whizzing bullets, may be verbal in the modern era, and the scores of orphans and widows may be only the one-night creations of color TV sets and Curt Gowdy, but the internecine struggle in the hollows and west into the flatlands will nonetheless maintain its fiery pitch...