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...pivots must have been set by Wee Willie Keeler in 44 games over six seasons at the turn of the century. Manager Tony La Russa's idea is to excuse regular Third Baseman Vance Law from facing the ace righthanders and hope the lefthanded bat of former Gold Glove First Baseman Mike Squires is not offset by a nightmare of swinging bunts. "There is a no man's land halfway between the mound and third," Squires admits, "but how many people can bunt the ball consistently? Our pitchers will have to help...
...press has a long history of underestimating Ronald Reagan, which may be why it still has trouble laying a glove on him. Of course, columnists and commentators who are paid to have opinions are in there mixing all the time, but it is the reportorial press that has the problem. Reagan uses anecdotes to great political effect in his speeches, pat-a-caking them into neat, sugar-coated homilies, but his facts often turn out to be wrong. Lately, according to Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, two sets of Jewish leaders have described a story told them...
There is no contradiction between Hitchcock' canny conservatism and his directorial eminence profit and honor went hand in glove. Even his brief cameo appearances (silhouetted in the neon skyline of Rope, for example) are a playful cue to the viewer to watch every frame for tricks and revelations. The qualities that made him the world's best-known moviemaker were precisely the ones that made him one of the best film artists...
...talked and talked and talked. His intelligence is instinctual and emotional, like a child's. If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice. So Michael creates around himself a world that protects his creativity." And the world outside is intrigued: about that rhinestone glove, for instance, that he has taken to affecting of late. Whatever their significance may be to Michael, gloves neatly, wittily?and, one hopes, consciously?deflect seriousness and reflect two of Michael's most publicized obsessions. A glove, even one with 1,200 rhinestones, suits Astaire-style topper and tails...
Haworth got the game-winning goal at 12-08 of the second period when Boston's Tom Fergus inadvertently gave him the puck. Haworth then connected for his 22nd gold of the season on a 50-foot slapshot over the glove of goalie Pete Peeters...