Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work, Jordan has trouble saying no to friends and has accumulated some misfits on his own staff. His attire until last year was defiantly casual, featuring open-necked shirts and ankle-high boots. He seemed to work harder on his tennis game than on most policy problems. Says one friend: "Hamilton has been lax because he's had no specific responsibility...
That hoary male chauvinist putdown, "She throws like a girl," will never be applied to Crystal Fields, 11, an outfielder for the Phillies in the Cumberland, Md., Little League. In the annual Pitch, Hit and Run competition before the major league All-Star game in Seattle last week, Crystal became the first female to win a championship when she outpointed seven boys in the finals of the nine-to-twelve age group. One of two girls on her Little League team, Crystal has been a stalwart-this year she's hitting .528 and getting on base...
...game as played by directors, producers and studios is neither good nor bad; as Epstein observes, previewing and then fixing a film is "like taking a play out of town for a tryout." All's well that ends well as long as the picture does well at the box office. Epstein, for one, boasts that he would rewrite Shakespeare: "I think the worst ending in the world is Hamlet. There is too much blood. There should have been a few less corpses." It looks as if Coppola has been won over to that less-is-more outlook...
Missing his T-shirt and sporting a mean sunburn, the wise old bleacher philosopher ambled from his seat, still talking of his mastery of the sport, his control of the odds and his long history with the game...
...people around me assured me he was a fixture at Wrigley Field, and his free conversation was as much a part of any game as hot dogs and scoreboards...