Word: davey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like an All-Star roster for the year 1974. Steve Garvey batted .312 as he collected 200 hits and 21 home runs. Jim Wynn led the team in homers (32) and helped power the Dodgers to the NL pennant. Bill Russell, the write-in All-Star at short, and Davey Lopes carried the big bats for LA down the stretch at the end of summer...
Most Blatant Promotion Gimmick: Warner Brothers proudly announced that The Exorcist had brought two people together. Spinster Doris Davey fainted when she first saw the movie at a Chicago cinema eleven weeks ago, falling into the arms of Theater Manager Larry Watts. The couple were married last week. Still under the spell of The Exorcist, the bride wore the same suit she had collapsed in. Director William Friedkin, perhaps hoping to swell the movie's gross of over $19 million so far, made an appearance as best...
...last year was 7% less per game than six years ago. Even in Canada, hockey's heartland, interest appears to be on the decline. The nationally televised Saturday night game of the week slipped slightly in the ratings last year. As avid a fan as Canadian Senator Keith Davey, who concedes that "I always organize my life around hockey," admits that he went to "a lot fewer games last year...
Breslin runs-or rather walks-his hero through a premise rife with possibilities. Take Davey, in whom the mere glimpse of an as yet undertrodden black arouses sadistic impulses, and send him off to visit the ravaged ghettos of Northern Ireland, where Davey's own people curse and stone the bobby on the beat. Put him through some particularly nasty scenes of Ulster violence, cast him into the arms of a pretty young revolutionary who talks suspiciously like the Communist Antichrist every force in his past has taught him to hate...
...confines of a newspaper column or magazine piece. Convincing evocations of blue-collar Saturday nights in Queens or of Bogside palaver in Londonderry stretch out until insights petrify into caricature. There are, to be sure, redeeming glimpses. Among them: the fanatic neatness of an Irish Republican Army bullyboy and Davey's sudden realization that cleanliness and godliness don't always walk together. In World Without End, Amen, Breslin weighs in as a serious novelist, then takes himself too seriously. The narrative's bog-slogging pace is a shame, be cause Breslin clearly cares, and can teach much...