Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he is a millionaire recluse who lives with a monkey and wears a single sequined glove, Michael Jackson qualifies. So does President Andrew Jackson, a card-carrying aristocrat who insisted on creating a backwoods image as "Old Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...
...wife, as patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle. But then, Willow is a Star Wars without star quality, an Indiana Jones adventure with...
Lynn watches a youngster circle under a ball, stick his glove out and make the catch...
...They say the key to winning a pennant is having defensive strength up the middle. A team with good fielders at catcher, second base, shortstop and centerfield has a tremendous defensive advantage. Can you name the last team which had Glove winners at these four positions? (Take two points per player and two for the team.) Ten points...
Ciavaglia got the puck up, but Muzzatti was able to get his glove on it and bat it away...