Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Observed from afar, the Kirkland magnetism looks as easy and inevitable as a natural force. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and look at that woman up there on that stage. This illusion, indeed, this bald-faced lie, is the tribute art pays to perspiration, not to mention a flinty intelligence that knows exactly what the body is up to every second of a performance. Says Gelsey: "As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way of doing the unnatural...
...England and Renaissance Vienna... another Harvard musical confection is modern in comparison. I say "in comparison," because some may consider any play dealing with the Washington Senators to be just this side of ancient history. Never mind--Damn Yankees may be dated, but it boasts tunes like "You've Gotta Have Heart," "Whatever Lola Wants," "The Good Old Days" and "Goodbye Old Girl," which is more than you can say of the Globe sports pages. As you might expect, a show mixing Faust and the Yankees was combustible stuff on Broadway--one of its longest-running shows, in fact. Maybe...
...Bill Lee. He was the only mad one, the only player I really wanted to talk to in Winterhaven, after I had been Holiday-Inned to death by all the other ball players to whom I asked the usual sportswriter questions and got the usual sportswriter dreck..."Well, you gotta like our ball club, we're lookin' good, lookin' good...just trying to get in shape, you know, we can win it all this year, that's what we're out here to do and we're gonna...
...These kids," he said almost to himself, "they gotta learn to have patience...
...cuts, along with other budget-trimming measures, without consulting the people involved in the affected programs. Hockey coach Bob Finke, who learned that his team had been eliminated only after reading a story in The Daily Pennsylvanian, characterized the feelings of many when he said, "The decision, you've gotta accept that. The thing I'm bitter about is how the decision was relayed to me and the kids...