Word: homers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Braves cavorted amid the fireworks at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Saturday night after their 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians, they seemed to be shaking off the monkeys of their two recent Series failures. There was David Justice, who hit a solo homer in the sixth off Jim Poole; Tom Glavine, whose one-hit pitching over eight innings, coupled with his win in Game Two, earned him the Series MVP award; and Mark Wohlers, who dispatched the top of the vaunted Cleveland order in the ninth to give the Braves their first World Championship in 38 years...
Jones ended game one against the expansion representative Colorado Rockies with a ninth-inning homer...
Upon reaching the end of the line and presenting the New Jersey license, bearing more resemblance to Homer Simpson than to yourself, and more likely bearing his name than your own, you receive the requisite cursory glance from Dave...
...exhibit at Houghton Library, entitled "John Keats and the Exaltation of Genius," includes original manuscripts in Keats' handwriting, such as the manuscripts for "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "To Autumn," along with letters written by Keats...
...artistically, he was entirely a European. None of the American preoccupations with national landscape found the smallest echo in his work--not the sublime rhetoric of Frederick Church, not the tight-surfaced stillness of the Luminists and certainly not the blunt factuality of Winslow Homer. Whistler was a superb topographical etcher, as his scenes of London, Amsterdam and Venice show; but he cared nothing for realism when aesthetics pointed away from...