Word: home
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frank but tender, with none of Riis' occasional nose-holding attitude toward the poor. There is no pigeonholing in Hine's 1904 portraits of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, no cliches of nationality or occupation. He knew that people who might not yet speak the language of their new home could still state themselves plainly to the lens...
...progressed -- in Asia and at home -- U.S. photographers left coverage elsewhere in the world to newly formed, predominantly French news agencies: Gamma, Sygma, Contact. Fiercely competitive, the agencies brought to news photography in Beirut, Tehran and other battlefronts a brand of reckless intimacy that television could not yet duplicate...
...bats--wood ones, of course. There was this one bat (Johnny Bench model, 30-ouncer) that I made sure was always properly placed in our team's equipment bag. I almost hit my only real home run (you know, when the ball actually goes into the trees on no bounces) with it. The pitcher was this short loudmouth who looked like Emmanuel Lewis with a James Brown hairdo. I hit the ball into the center field trees and began my first true home run trot, just like the big leaguers. But as I rounded second, the umpire told...
After the game, I didn't even bother to change out of my cleats in the dugout. I just ran home. For the first time in my life, I thought baseball was the stupidest sport in the world...
...season. We were playing the Apollos, the division's first-place team, and losing really badly. Yes, by more than 10 runs. In the sixth inning, a kid named Pat Kenney (who looked a lot like Steve Balboni) hit a shot into the gap that would have been a home run for anyone else. But Pat wasn't that quick, so we had a play at the plate...