Word: games
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand low-sulfur oil, as did Nigeria, a nation that has made a practice of haphazardly squandering its petrodollars almost as blithely as Americans waste oil. Kuwait, Iran and Venezuela tacked on $1.20-per-bbl. surcharges. Mexico, though not an OPEC member, also got in on the gouging game; it added...
Though it is new to Broadway, Bedroom Farce is only his 18th play; his 21st, Joking Apart, just opened in London; and his 22nd, Sisterly Feelings, is on tour in England. Ayckbourn enjoys all kinds of games and puzzles-he has a vast game room in Scarborough-and his plays are like Chinese boxes. The Norman Conquests looks at the same people from three different angles; Bedroom Farce hops into three bedrooms; Sisterly Feelings has two third acts. From night to night no one, Ayckbourn included, knows which one will be played. At the end of the second...
...roles had been reversed in the first game--there was better hitting, but worse fielding. Luckily, though, the pitching was again invincible, as the unflappable Larry Brown moored Navy with eight strikeouts, while yielding but four hits and one earned...
...double to left by centerfielder Charlie Santos-Buch and back to back singles by Stenhouse and Bingham tied the game and forced Navy to bring in reliever Bob Gast, who gave up two walks and a Jim Peccerillo sacrifice liner, leaving with the bases loaded and the score...
...came on a double that Santos-Buch caught, but which was inexcusably called a trap), but the sixth-inning outburst righted his confidence. Brownie gave up one hit and an unearned run in the last two frames, while three doubles (the Crimson had six two-baggers in the game) and a single gave the batsmen their two final runs...