Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overly swelled egos of the Baltimore team. And New York teams just don't lose to those from Baltimore, even when the odds-makers instruct them to. As for today's game, there is no way they can beat Tom Seaver, originally a Braves product who is a fine young pitcher. The New Breed to win, 4-2. My Red Barber autographer, obtained when the Old Redhead came to Mt. Kisco for a wedding, is on the line this time...
...work on the campaign and after Nix-en's victory, moved his wife and two daughters to a colonial-style house in suburban Virginia. He sits in on many top-level meetings, but he has little, it any, say about what will be made public. That seems fine with him. "Nobody wants to know what Ron Ziegler thinks about anything," he says. "The worst thing a press secretary can ever do is shoot from the hip. I'd rather say, 'I'll check it out' " -is one of his frequent responses to delicate questions...
...single film could justify the entire film festival, then this year that film is certainly Ermanno Olmi's One Fine Day. It harks back in some ways to the tradition of postwar Italian realism and its masters, among them Rossellini and De Sica. Yet Olmi's films seem more precise, more tightly constructed, more acute. He has a film maker's sense of composition and a novelist's sense of rhythm and construction. The plot of One Fine Day is much like an anecdote by Chekhov. A middle-aged Milanese advertising executive (Brunette Del Vita...
...difference between heroes and most people is that heroes have destinies, while most people have only ambitions. With some fine adjustments for human limitations, Joyce Carol Gates demonstrates her intuitive grasp of this fact in Them, the latest novel in what has now become an informal trilogy about people's frantic attempts to free themselves from the complexities of American life...
...first two novels were A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) and Expensive People (1968), both studies of frustrated love and self-destruction written with the intensity and control of fine short stories. Even before these books, Miss Gates had established herself as a promising young writer of remarkable power and sensitivity. With the publication of Them at the age of 31, she emerges as that rarity in American fiction, a writer who seems to grow with each new book...