Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure have the sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed his A's in green-and-gold uniforms ("Kelly green and Finley gold," explained one player), installed a flock of green-andgold-blanketed sheep on a grassy slope behind the rightfield fence, passed out free...
Rival players taunted the dandified A's: "Hiya, beautiful." Batters quavered when Harvey burst from his hole with a shriek. The A's still finished in the ruck (ninth in 1961 and 1962, eighth in 1963), and fans stayed home in droves. Over three seasons, the Athletics averaged 694,000 fans-third-worst attendance in the league-and Owner Finley glumly totted up losses of $1,028,000-bringing his total investment to more than...
...Michelin star, is for tourists. La Scala, which serves mediocre Italian food, and Chasen's, where steak is cooked under white-hot rock salt, used to be No. 1 and No. 2. Now everyone is crowding into The Bistro-perhaps because nearly everyone is a stockholder: Laurence Harvey, Tony Curtis, George Axelrod, Otto Preminger, Robert Stack, Jack Lemmon, Jack Benny, Dean Martin, Merle Oberon, Sam Spiegel...
McKenna is tough, angry, morally destroyed--a typical Lawrence Harvey role, superbly tailored for him. But even Harvey's skillful portrayal places second to the great performance of Ross Martin, late of TV's Mr. Lucky and a madman role. His development of the prosecutor is a microcosm of the film: when it is sensible, he is a stern moralist; when it becomes a film noir, he turns into a monster...
...American public, through the nation's press, television, and radio, has been persuaded that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy. A presumption of guilt, rather than of innocence, has dominated the news media; the day after Ruby shot Oswald, the New York Times headlined its front page, "President's Assassin Shot to Death." In the 55 days since Kennedy's murder, only a few publications, notably the New Republic, the Reporter, and the National Guardian, have pointed out the weakness of the evidence which has been presented to the public...