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DIED. DICK STUART, 70, slugging first baseman nicknamed Dr. Strangeglove for his poor fielding; of cancer; in Redwood City, Calif. Despite his reputation as a fumbler, Stuart, who spent his most productive years with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox, hit 228 homers in a 10-year career...
...Fumbler. Michigan's Engler has learned enough in the past two months to write a quickie book that might be called "How Not to Win the Vice-Presidential Nomination." First, the two-term Governor waited until Dole had almost clinched the nomination to endorse him. Next, Engler angered Dole by making the endorsement with no warning while he was in Washington and Dole was in, of all places, Michigan. Then Engler presumptuously volunteered to reporters that he would make a good Vice President...
...last bastion of "traditional" art to hold out against the encroachment of modernism. Long after the Museum of Modern Art in New York became a going concern, Royal Academicians like Sir Alfred Munnings were still rising over their port at Academy banquets to denounce Cézanne as a fumbler and Van Gogh as a crop-eared madman. No doubt their offended ghosts are gibbering in the courtyard at the thought of all of Burlington House being turned over to the largest exhibition of early modern art ever mounted in Great Britain, with nine Cezannes, 13 Van Goghs, 14 Gauguins, twelve...
...overdramatized rescue of the Mayaguez from the Cambodians. Since then it has been downhill, as he was perceived by many as just not being up to the job. Trying to improve his standing in November by shifting key lieutenants and firing Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, he looked like a fumbler. Confronted with massive if badly led Democratic majorities in Congress, he could not overcome the opposition to many of his domestic and foreign policies. In the end he was forced to accept clumsy compromises: an energy bill that would reduce oil prices in the short run and allow them...
Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a teen-age fumbler who takes his first job as an attendant at a public bath and swimming pool located in the far reaches of some bleak London suburb. He is engulfed by sexual fantasies but terrified when any of his female customers attempt to initiate him. Little wonder. Women for him are a mystery and a threat. They either overwhelm him with bloated lust (like one patron who smothers him in a bone-crushing embrace while passionately discussing football) or exploit him, like Susan (Jane Asher), another attendant at the baths, whose simultaneous taunting...