Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could make a case for a peculiarly redemptive humility of tone in the novel, but just on general principles. References to Mesopotamian mythology and Joseph Conrad don't detract from the fact that this is a hell of a baseball book, and I'd rather hear a Brooklyn Dodger fan than a professor on this...
Wilson has been a steady performer on the Radcliffe pinball circuit all season long. His records include high ball and high game on "Flying Carpet," high game on "Swinger" and a phenomenal high game of 524,000 on "Fan...
...astrologer's mind is quick, despite his 72 years, and the irises of his blue-black eyes seem enormous. He sat in an oversized lounge chair beneath a whirling fan, and in his lap he held a black slate. As a little girl brought him tea, he scribbled a row of figures, then another, revising them again and again-all this based on my birthday...
...into New York for two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall, then on to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. In July he will be back in the pit at Covent Garden conducting Bizet's Carmen. He will stay on in London to record Mozart's Cost fan tutte and Puccini's La Boheme; then after a month's vacation he will return to Chicago for concerts, and begin recording more Beethoven symphonies. On it goes. His engagements already run into 1977. Perhaps then he will be ready to slow down, but no one is betting...
...Trek was when network executives locked him into a screening room and made him watch eight or nine hours of the program. "Most of Frieburger's scripts were due to nepotism, favors he owed people. Some of that stuff was so bad it made me ashamed to be a fan," says Bjo Trimble who followed the switch closely. "It literally killed the show...