Word: homerically
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Because Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian bats Vallone ninth, he gets a lot of fastballs. Yesterday Vallone bounced one fastball off the fence for a double, snacked another 360 feet for a two-run homer and slapped a third into night field for a base...
Marchese pitched six innings of four hit ball but wasn't overly excited with his 1984 northern debut, which was marred only by a hanging change-up that became a two-run homer...
...George Brett's "pine tar" home run provided perhaps the most memorable news from last year's baseball season. Who was on base when Brett hit the tworun homer against the Yankees...
DIED. Richmond Lattimore, 77, distinguished American poet and classical scholar whose literal yet lyrical translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were widely praised for their scrupulous adherence to the original Greek metrical pattern and syntax; of cancer; in Rosemont, Pa. A professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College from 1935 to 1971, Lattimore also produced five volumes of original poetry, which earned him critical praise and, only last month, a $10,000 award from the Academy of American Poets...
...music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr) and his home-front brother Homer (Stephen Geoffreys) that develops into a touching antiwar choral...