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The film describes the career of a promising young baseball player in the early 1920s whose glorious future is seemingly shattered in a brutal event. The player, Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) returns to baseball 16 years later to play for the last place, bumbling New York Knights. The story is...
This simple plot is enhanced by the colorful and symbolic figures that influence Hobbs' quest. There is his grumpy yet loveable coach, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), whom the audience first encounters in the Knights' dugout patiently watching his clumsy ball players and screaming about the rusty water from the water...
His tale was of Roy Hobbs, a ballplayer possessed of a talent and an innocence that could only have their sources in the supernatural. In Malamud's baseball world, like Malory's Arthurian one, men are ever the victims; it is women who have the power to make...
Stewart B. Hobbs, Associate Director for Administration at TSC, said yesterday that there is a "level of concern" around the Kendall Square research facility these days, as several methods of transferring career employees to private companies are currently being reviewed.
Commenting on the impact this could have on the Cambridge area. Hobbs also said that the Transportation Systems Center and its six buildings have been the cornerstone of redevelopment and urban renewal in Kendall Square for the past fifteen years.