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Meanwhile, in Montreal last night, the Expos went two up in their National League East championship, defeating Philadelphia, 3-1. Gary Carter's two-run homer off Dick Ruthven in the third inning proved to be decisive. Jeff Reardon pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth to save the game for starter Bill Gullickson...
Late September used to be the time when Detroit rolled out its shiny new models and then gloried in the predict able "oohs" and "aahs" of an auto-obsessed public. The Big Three American automakers this season are tooting their horns, but it hardly sounds like a traffic jam. After two straight years of sagging sales and giant losses, the car manufacturers are introducing only an autumnal handful of fresh models...
...famous wry smile and sweatless brow. He knows what he's doing by keeping you waiting for his occasional flourishes. Though he may look a little bored, Watts understands the unique funkiness his bosses need, and he is wise in the ways of making studio productions sound like spontaneous jam sessions...
...that insults have disappeared entirely from modern discourse, but they have been reduced to the most elementary forms of abuse, and to the least poetic occasions. Once in a while one feels the sweet spray of curses in a traffic jam or at a ball game, for example, and is momentarily uplifted, but it is mere rudeness, and rudimentary. Fortunately, we still have the old movies to turn...
...snails and sand dollars. The 13-ft.-high viewing windows of two gigantic "race track" tanks, one atop the other, reveal the dark worlds of an Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot fish, grunts and blow fish swim in a traffic jam of color through the coral reef. Below, sea turtles and rays settle into the simulated depths, sometimes with understandable uneasiness, as eight species of shark hover near...