Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first batter tried to bunt him, as the first batters often do. Abbott is a genius at transferring his glove back and forth, but seeing is hardly believing. He smartly fielded first the bunt and later the question about it. "The way I look at it, if a hitter is weak on the inside, that's where I'm going to pitch him. If they think I can't field, I don't blame them for trying to bunt." In a five-inning stint, Abbott allowed the Nicaraguans just three hits, and they were beaten 18-0. Those...
...plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger of his steel hand and then, to impress a gawking boy, blow smoke from the glove's ruptured finger. Is the movie gaily influenced by old Howard Hawks, Roger Corman and even Jerry Lewis films? Then Dante will cast veteran actors identified with those directors...
...Body Glove Swimwear, Piccone's company, has sold more than 33,000 one- and two-piece suits (priced from $40 to $130) in hot pink, fluorescent green and & other vibrant colors. Top designers like Norma Kamali and Gianfranco Ferre are turning out similar fashions. Coming soon from Body Glove: a line of neoprene car coats and miniskirts...
...STAND and cheer our sports heroes's strength and skill when they grace the playing field. But when most of them drop bat and glove for a typewriter, it's time for us to dive under the seats...
...Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing. Two of the three judges saw it that way. Leonard waited until their pencils stopped and then collapsed...