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...members of the bridge design review committee met for three hours downtown here Friday, in an effort to hammer out their recommendation about the controversial Charles River interchange portion of the artery...
...public chose well. For here, in 356 episodes of primal prime time, were the central conflicts of American life. Country (the Ewing home at Southfork Ranch) fought with city (the Ewing Oil building in downtown Dallas). Cowboys corralled oil slickers. Sons (J.R. and Bobby) double-crossed each other for their father's love. Daughters-in-law ached for the approval of a family that would always eye them suspiciously. Add myriad business rivals, mistresses, children and newly discovered relatives, and the conflict could keep roiling in a never-ending story, with cunning variations on the time-honored themes...
...architecturally, Comiskey can be scored as a double off the wall, the new ball park rising in Camden Yards in downtown Baltimore is a going-going- gone home run. Make no mistake, fans and players alike will miss the homey pleasures of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, now in its final year. Set in the middle of an old-fashioned front-porch neighborhood and never an architectural icon, Memorial Stadium is like Baltimore itself, a place that purports to be nothing more and nothing less than...
...park, one can appreciate why baseball bard Roger Angell proclaimed, "This is a fan's park . . . They've done it at last." Although Camden Yards is designed by the same firm that created Comiskey, here the upper deck is a graceful incline, not a mountain climb with Sherpa guides. Downtown Baltimore is always in view, from the Bromo-Seltzer clock tower behind left field to the massive, restored brick warehouse in right field that will become a 460-ft.-from-home-pl ate target. (Already the Orioles are searching for lefthanded sluggers with "warehouse power.") The homage to old ball...
...hits, including five home runs, to top Massachusetts, 15-10. Morgan homered once again for his third round-tripper of the season and sophomore right fielder Mike Hill (1), Captain Marcel Durand (1), junior first baseman Dan Scanlan (2) and freshman If Mike Giardi (1) also went downtown...