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...played with the Chicago Cubs in 1967, then bounced around from club to club as his fastball faded. In 1972, when he was sent to the minors, those backyard sessions finally asserted their hold: Joe perfected the knuckleball. In 1975 he joined the Astros, who now have a flutter at the pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baffling Batters with Butterflies | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...thousand performances closed after opening night, a newly-opened charge account goes unused, and taxis go unhailed. She marks a major career setback by measuring its small reverberations in her life-style. Similarly, she captures the human foibles of theatrical luminaries, such as Katharine Cornell's tendency to flutter her hands immediately before going onstage. Artists like Sir John Gieglud and Alfred Lunt are for the author magnificent human beings. Olivier in particular emerges not so much as the world's finest actor but as a perfect gentleman, treating young, awed actors as collegues, drinking with them, exchanging stories with...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Life on the Stage | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...eaglet outfield may not be the most reliable form of transportation to carry the Giants to the pennant. During a hot stretch drive, especially against relentless veterans, they have been known to flutter dangerously, not to say grow flustered, under stress. The Dodgers are such an enemy. Though they have thus far stumbled along, beset by injuries, they are still at or near the top, an established team of stars capable of leaving anybody in the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants and Dodgers Tangle Again | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...furry eyebrows still flutter like windshield wipers and the ever-present cigar is just as pungent as it was when Pierre Salinger served as John Kennedy's White House press secretary and a court jester to Camelot. One day this month Salinger, now 52, found himself conducting a press conference again, only this time his audience was a group of French businessmen: "The Concorde is a dinosaur ... There will be no candidate from the Kennedy clan in 1980 ... What do Americans think of France? They do not think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Our Man in Paris | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...prison cell, Creon paces to within a foot of Antigona, who is squatting in defiance. It is unlikely that a man in Creon's position would not have kicked her. Further: the crowd shuffles around forgettably and the yellow journalists fling themselves across stage in a clumsy flock. Their flutter emphasizes the parody but dissipates the tension...

Author: By Christine Healey, | Title: Latin American Fashion | 3/8/1977 | See Source »

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