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Just about that time, as a squadron of planes pulling signs advertising everything from Hustler Magazine to Glory Denims buzzed overhead, a familiar figure walked out of the Boston dugout. He headed across the outfield with his characteristic gait and by the time he reached the bullpen, the entire crowd was chanting "Looee, Looee." Tiant had the masses charmed and they responded to his every move. It seemed as if he drew strength as well as encouragement from the yelling throngs. When he finished his warmup, you could almost sense that Tiant had the crowd, the Reds, and the game...
...Joseph illness" is peculiarly unpleasant. It usually starts with a loss of coordination, a drunken, staggering gait, and gradual slurring of speech. It ends, generally 20 years after its onset, in death, usually from pneumonia brought on by a gradual paralysis of the muscles involved in breathing...
...Fauves had been rubbish at best, and at worst the fruit (so to speak) of a homosexual conspiracy to rob the U.S. of its primal manly culture. The American museum, he grumbled, was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people. Yet, in the end, one wonders if the tribunal to which Benton submitted his work and attitudes was not some jury of average, sensual Midwesterners but rather the ghost of his father, a stumping, swilling, iron-throated Ozark Congressman whom he revered...
Imagine the elderly, the disabled, the poor, declaring with Rand's protagonist, John Gait "... that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for [me]." Suffering on low, fixed incomes, they can't even live for themselves. Well, let 'em eat dog food...
...Nautical Gait. For the first time in years, Rockefeller enjoyed a summer reminiscent of childhood. He passed leisurely days at Seal Harbor with Happy and their two children, Nelson, 10, and Mark, 7. To those who know him, Rockefeller had never seemed more fit. His 185 Ibs. are evenly distributed over his 5-ft. 10-in. frame, and there is no hint of a paunch. With his rolling, nautical gait, protruding brow and drooping eyelids, he has the perpetual look of a man facing a severe northeaster-or could it be constant political gales...