Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bucky Dent, the starting shortstop whose play has tested the loyalty of many a Yankee fan, coupled his bat with less-than-graceful Lou Piniella's glove to form one mammoth unsung hero for New York. Dent's three-run homer in the seventh that put the Yankees ahead silenced a too-cocky-for-such-a-close-game Fenway crowd, while Piniella's defensive efforts in Glaucoma Country (sundrenched right field) enabled the lead to hold...
...Burrows once told Janus that the comedian must practice his comedy in order to avoid destroying himself; and the psychologist agrees that the comics are successfully using humor as a form of self-therapy. All told, Janus says, the comedians are bright, sensitive and relatively stable. But, he adds, "they are not happy guys...
...Humans seem to have a genetic predisposition toward learning some form of communal aggression. The way to control it is to "create a confusion of cross-binding loyalties" to various groups...
Williams follows his free-form chatter with enough wacked-out characters to people a spin-off of his spinoff. There is the French waiter at Chez Chuck, moving like a spastic Keystone Kop and offering customers such delicacies as "chicken lips with rice." Mr. Rogers, a takeoff on the dim-but-lovable kiddie show host, says: "Welcome to my neighborhood. Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave oven. O.K.? Pop goes the weasel!" Other bit players include Ernest Sincere, a redneck used-car dealer; Joey Stalin, a Russian stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt...
...table, though the court system has not yet recorded any resulting alteration in the divorce rate. Office workers are loath to lunch alone, since a solo meal without a newspaper is like a day without sunshine. Says Press Agent Arthur Rubine, who has sought companionship in the Daily Racing Form: "It's no fun to go to the bathroom any more...