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...Cosby Show makes a graceful, understated exit. There is no grand climax, tear-jerking finale or other last-show gimmick, and only one nostalgic flashback (a father-son talk from the very first Cosby episode). In the last scene, Cliff and Clair perform some minor business about a broken doorbell, dance together, then stroll off the set. Stepping out of character, they walk arm in arm through the cameras, crew and applauding studio audience. And, with becoming modesty, into TV history...
Baseball's link with the family and particularly the father-son relationship forged by playing catch could provide the positive male role models frequently missing from the lives of inner city youths who grow up without father at home...
...wares at a rundown country store: "On the crowded shelf of cigarettes and pipe tobacco, he saw, for the first time in years, the little cotton bags of shag his father had smoked to excess, so crude it came complete with tobacco stalks. Good stuff, that shag: it had given the old bastard the long, lingering, thoroughly horrible death he'd deserved." Nothing more is said about that father-son relationship -- and nothing is needed. That is characteristic of the eight novels as a whole: they are an unsentimental journey to the heart of a problem...
Fortunately, The Freshman possesses another subtext that thrives on the power of Brando's acting. On one level, The Freshman is about the father-son relationship between Sabatini, who never had a son, and Kellogg, whose father died when he was six. This would be an utterly ordinary thesis in most films, but the force of Brando's potrayal of the paternalistic Sabatini and Broderick's capable rendering of the All-American rural innocent provide The Freshman with convincing human impact. Just as The Godfather succeeds largely because it was able to make the family life of the murdering, lawbreaking...
...after the Monday no-hitter) is more than a thousand higher than Steve Carlton's all-time second best. He has allowed the fewest hits per nine innings (6.56) of any player in the game. He has struck out 19 Hall of Famers, 44 Most Valuable Players and six father-son combinations. He is the first pitcher to throw no-hitters in three different decades. Ryan is the best pitcher ever by one crucial standard: people don't hit what he throws...