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Vigor and Grace. Lucille Ball plays Mame, an event calculated to please those throngs who dote loyally on her reruns, which rain down on television like static interference. Miss Ball has been molded over the years into some sort of national monument, and she performs like one too. Her grace, her timing, her vigor have all vanished. When she is photographed at close range, the image goes soft, indicating that the lens was smeared with Vaseline and shrouded in gauze. The other actors in the movie are clear enough on their own. But when they step into a shot with...
...inevitably overwhelms. "Wooden's success," says one rival coach, "is based on upsetting the tempo and style of his opponent. He does it by running, running and running some more. He mixes that up by ball hawking, by grabbing, by slapping and by hand-waving defense. His clubs dote on harassing the man with the ball." Gail Goodrich, for one, well remembers the grind imposed by "Mr. Run." "There were nights when I'd come home from practice so tired I'd be lucky to get my clothes off. Exhausted. Totally exhausted. But that tremendous practice tempo...
...those conditions that the patient does not have, particularly the one that worries him most. Finally, the physician can explain the symptoms to the patient and assure him that they are harmless. Under no circumstances, however, should he try to deny the existence of pain or discomfort. Most patients dote on their symptoms, and will shop for a physician who is just as interested...
Coming in the heyday of the hitter, Vida Blue's success is all the more remarkable. It also points out one of the happy paradoxes of the game: while many fans prefer the action of a double rattling off the wall, just as many dote on that subtle little duel between hurler and hitter. Baseball has its troubles?shaky franchises, feuding owners, player dissents?but as long as its basic appeals thrive, so too will the game...
...botched his first marriage long ago. He is separated from his second wife, Helen, one of those eager Midwestern emigrees who dote on Eastern intellectuals. He honed her critical intelligence to a straight-razor edge, and then his Galatea cut him up. Sheed scarcely needs to imply that two first-rate critics in one house is a brief description of hell...