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Certainly the Cincinnati offense is one of the finest in recent memory. Basically, the Reds line up is a three spark-plug, three piston machine. Morgan, Rose and Griffey, all hitting well over 300, are the spark-plugs; Bench, Perez and Foster, who collectively accounted for 66 home runs and 316 RBI's are the pistons. The sparkplugs hit 'em where they ain't and the pistons hit 'em over the walls...
...white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
...finest vocal on the album, in the song "Meeting Across The River," capsules the false bravado of a Jersey hood asking his friend Eddie for a ride through the tunnel to New York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song...
Jakachū has never been well represented in the West, mainly because his finest paintings, the almost legendary 30 scrolls depicting animals and plants, all belong to the imperial collections. To look at the dense patterns and twining lines of a Jakachū in reproduction is at first to be reminded of Victorian illustration, as though he were an Eastern Aubrey Beardsley or Arthur Rackham. Not so. In fact, he was nearer to being a cross, improbable as it may sound, between Audubon and Vincent Van Gogh. When Jakachū painted the arrogant feathers of a cock's ruff...
...Lowell Weicker. Monday-morning quarterbacks will have their greatest field day with Howard's uncharacteristic tension. "Our show will have a different feel with Howard," Arledge had boasted. But alas, even Cosell's talent for sardonic invective was dulled. Obviously reading from cue cards, he made his finest hour seem 90 minutes long. Sinatra was not punning when he predicted: "This will be a millstone on American...