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Freddy Lynn launched an eleventh-hour rally by planting an Arroyo fastball in the right-field upper deck to lead off the ninth. But when Rick Burleson drew a walk off Arroyo with two outs, manager Ralph Houk made the call for Foucault, who silenced rookie Ted Cox's loud bat by forcing him into a game-ending...
...material Bruce drew from his own life; he didn't talk about easy subjects. When he rambled on in the abstract, he was drawing from his own experience. That quickly becomes apparent if one looks through written versions of what Bruce said onstage, and compares the routines to the personal narratives in his autobiography, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People." In fact he writes in his autobiography, "One thing about getting divorced, it gave me an hour's worth of material. That's not bad for an eight-year investment." Bruce's hallmark was a tough laugh...
WHATEVER PETTY financial conflicts, unpleasant personality traits or questionable musical taste were associated with him, Stokowski's positive progressive instinct surfaced steadily and surely. To Stokowski the sound an orchestra produced and the reaction it drew from an audience were more important than anything else in a concert. If this necessitated a breach in propriety or break from formal performance practice, he sanctioned it. Stokowski conducted without a baton, and partly because of that was considered one of the most difficult conductors to follow. He relied in its stead upon subtle gestures and facial expressions to produce the desired results...
Callaghan was occasionally interrupted by hecklers but received the traditional standing ovation when he finished. Although he had preached an unorthodox homily for a Labor Prime Minister, he drew partisan support from his audience by warning that a wage explosion could lead to a Conservative takeover. "I don't want to see those with a different philosophy, or no philosophy at all, taking it from us," said he. "The question is whether we have the guts and stamina to stick to it. We are going...
Some of the anger and division between the whites and the Indians emerged in midAugust. At that time, Tureen drew up a preliminary plan that proposed setting up a Wamponoag reservation that would include fishing rights in the neighboring white community of Chilmark...