Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schmidt, who had smashed a towering two-run homer in the fourth, opened the ninth with a shot that glanced off third baseman George Brett's glove for a single...
...Yankees bounced back in the fifth on a leadoff inside-the-park home run by Graig Nettles. The shot bounced off the glove of rightfielder John Wathan's glove and careened toward the centerfield, allowing Nettles to score. Moments later, Wathan misjudged a Willie Randolph line drive which dropped in for a double and drove Brown home from first...
...hardly matters. The Dallas phenomenon stems from something more complex than an interest in whodunit. If J.R. Ewing had not committed himself to a life of stylish wickedness-and if the part did not fit Hagman like an iron whip in a velvet glove-few viewers would care that he was near death or trouble themselves to ponder the assailant's identity. If the scheming scion of Ewing Oil were not surrounded by a nest of relatives, all pursuing their venal and venereal desires through a plot delirious in its complexity, he would be perceived as a cartoon villain...
...racer with murder on his mind. His actors of ten move at an otherworldly pace that recalls the stylized slowness of silent movies-especially in a wordless sequence that lasts almost half an hour. He builds suspense through the use of the unsuspected detail: a hand picking up a glove, a gleaming doorknob, an empty pair of shoes...
Pfeiffer's iron glove was felt elsewhere around the company. In the past two years more than 55 vice presidents have left or been fired from NBC. She reportedly ended one Friday afternoon meeting of top executives by smiling at them and remarking lightly, "We may have a great surprise next Friday when we have our next staff meeting. It'll be interesting to see who isn't there then." Said one of her victims: "She loved to confront people...