Word: dicks
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...Whitaker over, he finally did-with a single. Trammell provided all their runs in a 4-2 victory that left the Padres with no cheerful alternative to winning three games in a row, as they had done against the Chicago Cubs. "Maybe we should start our bullpen," said Manager Dick Williams, for the starting pitchers' earned run average over three losses and a victory...
...questions asked. The current cinematic trend, seen in Places in the Heart and now in Jessica Lange's new film Country, has taken upon itself the unenviable task of giving Meaning to the once familiar and unportentuous storm. While the tradition of literary storms, from King Lear to Moby Dick, is a valid one, in a less subtle medium like film, such an obvious use of symbolism can come across as heavy-handed and simplistic. Country is no exception...
...DIEGO--Atonement came for Kurt Bevacqua and Dick Williams as the San Diego Padres pulled even with the Detroit Tigers in the 1984 World Series last night...
...Brett said, "When you hear transition, you think of rebuilding; when you think of rebuilding, you think of finishing sixth. The Cubs have been rebuilding for 39 years." On July 18, the Royals in fact were in sixth place (40-51), but to the easy encouragement of Manager Dick Howser they won 43 of the next 67 with a crowd of boy pitchers and six different shortstops...
...gives old black-and-white a new life," says Lisa Merians of Viacom Industries, which distributes the Twilight Zone special and owns the rights to such filmed series as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners and The Phil Silvers Show. MGM, which has more than 4,000 films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which...