Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calculator, a math major, Johnson had played a tidy second base for Earl Weaver's best teams in Baltimore. During the '60s, before computers were cool, Johnson wrote a program designed, as he put it, to "optimize" the Oriole lineup. Weaver never got around to installing it, but he loved to hear his second baseman talk. To Johnson there are no "hitting streaks" or "hot hands." There are "favorable chance deviations." The Mets' general manager, Frank Cashen, also came from Baltimore. He is considered conservative, though ( a better word would be careful. While Cashen tilts especially toward caution...
...Earl Wilson...
...have scraped patches off his own Titian and Rubens, and was known to have destroyed a Watteau, in search of the "secrets" of the old masters. But his own paintings cooked themselves down to blistered wrecks, sometimes within the lifetime of the sitters. An elderly Irish rake, the Earl of Drogheda, returned to his native land after 30 years abroad, with a shattered constitution. He found that his youthful portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed, corrupt and wrinkled than he had become. One might say it is to Joshua Reynolds, rather than Oscar Wilde, that / the portrait of Dorian...
...James Earl Jones, one of America's foremost classical actors, is appearing at the Goodman Theater in Fences, a new play by August Wilson, author of the Broadway melodrama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wisdom Bridge Theater, which last year toured in Britain and played a summer season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, this week is reviving a much praised multimedia Hamlet. Directed by Robert Falls (who last month shifted from the artistic directorship of Wisdom Bridge to the same slot at the bigger-budget Goodman), this Hamlet employs a slide show, blues and rock sequences, video monitors...
...personal agony in Joan Allen's portrayal of a woman literally maddened by the intrusions of the police state. As a black friend who may or may not have been betrayed by the woman's husband, Glover makes the suffering less classically tragic but more universal. On Broadway, James Earl Jones envisioned the character as a great soul stifled into ordinariness. Glover instead evokes a man already ordinary, a common laborer whose simple yearnings are still too much for apartheid to permit...