Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagining Rose in a perennially clean uniform is more than a little strange. Though he is approaching 47, he denies having any pangs about quitting. "Managing has been so involving, I feel like I'm almost playing," he says. "Anyway, it wouldn't be fair for me to say I'm going to miss hitting the ball, because I got to hit it more than anybody." Just as Henry Aaron's 755 home runs seem somehow more difficult to keep count of than Babe Ruth's 714, Rose's 4,256 hits will take a while displacing Ty Cobb...
Meese has publicly conceded that, at Wallach's urging, he helped Wedtech get a "fair hearing" on a $32 million Army engine contract in 1982. The Army, which had considered Wedtech unqualified for the work, agreed to award the no- bid contract to the Bronx firm after an unusual White House meeting in the office of James Jenkins, then Meese's top deputy. Jenkins later went to work for Wedtech. At the time Meese was Counsellor to the President. Giuliani stressed that the defendants are not charged with illegally influencing Meese, but were indicted for the allegedly unlawful...
...least, but too often the movie went soft, like spun-sugar quicksand. In The Best of Times, Williams went Chaplinesque -- Geraldine, alas, not Charlie -- as a weak geek trying to validate youthful dreams of football glory. And Club Paradise cast him as the ringmaster of a clown caravan. No fair: other guys got to be funny. And not funny: Popeye remains his biggest box-office hit to date...
Cramer, of course, was a very uptown kind of country keyboard man, and Jarvis admits, "I'd like to be an instrumental guy for this new country music. The kind of stuff Hank Williams Jr. and Steve Earle do." Fair enough. That is country music without clear borders, and Jarvis has started to do just fine traveling without a map. After another record or two, maybe he will not have to keep showing his passport. By then, enough people should have come around to recognizing the territory Jarvis can already call...
...debutante holidaying among the homeless. Both she and Helen are, after all, Vassar girls, and she bears herself with the shambling dignity of a gentlewoman trying to maintain moral equilibrium while on the skids. But Streep's role is small. Nicholson must carry the film, and it is no fair burden. In one or two other films, this sexy, daredevil performer has renounced his star quality, tamped his radiance, sat on his capacious charm, as if this were a higher form of acting. It is not. Pudgy and hollow-eyed, Nicholson gives the viewer no reason to follow Francis into...