Word: home-run
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...Both men did well, "but Gore actually turned things around," says Frank Luntz, the G.O.P. pollster who used focus groups to analyze the various convention performances. "Before the conventions," says Luntz, "Kemp was preferred over Gore. After they spoke, Gore surged ahead, a reversal due entirely to Gore's home-run speech...
...killer home-run show on Wednesday nights yet," concedes Kelly Kahl of CBS, whose network offers Rhea Pearlman's new overaged-college-student comedy Pearl for Wednesdays. "Our main goal is women 25 to 54." The WB is chasing younger men and women, in their late teens and early 20s--tough, given that Fox serves up the adolescent-friendly Beverly Hills, 90210 and Party of Five on Wednesdays. With its sci-fi lineup, UPN is courting older male viewers--but, notes senior executive VP Len Grossi, "not 50-plus CBS older...
...run the movies are finally considering. For two decades--since 1975, when Jaws proved that the all-male action adventure could generate huge returns--moguls have dreamed of tough-guy melodramas that produce nine-digit grosses. Because women's films didn't seem as if they could fulfill these home-run fantasies, studio chiefs saw trouble in women's projects and had a litany of rejection phrases for them: "Risky." "Guys choose the movie on a date, and women just go along." "Too small; it's a TV movie." "Women's films don't make money." "Why bother...
...late night drinking), tape his legs from buttocks to ankle, then go out and hit tape-measure homers. Unlike the aloof Joe DiMaggio, whom he replaced at center, Mantle was generous and funny and self-effacing. Even in 1961, when he and Roger Maris were chasing Babe Ruth's home-run record, Mantle was supportive of Maris. "I'll always be a Yankee," he once said, and indeed, he followed the fortunes of the club religiously...
...baseball's canon-making procedure subjective?" Cassuto wondered. "Or does the statistically measurable quality of baseball make it possible to prove or measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient" and "fast-twitch muscle fiber." A more direct analysis was offered by Ray Hayworth, a Detroit Tigers catcher during Ruth's era who had the advantage of watching the superstar in action from inches away. "Babe was just great," Hayworth explained...