Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jim writes for thestreet.com website. He maintains some of his long position in Cendant. Nothing in this column should be construed as advice to buy or sell stocks...
...Lloyd Webber's most inspired choice is his new lyricist, Jim Steinman, the veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over...
...shutouts. In other words, he doesn't starve batters--he just serves them table scraps, stuff they can't really smack. Lots of his pitches dribble into the infield. Almost none fly out of the park (only five this year and none in his five face-offs against McGwire). Jim Palmer, a Hall of Fame pitcher, calls Maddux "a master at late movement," a baseballese way of saying his pitches dance away at the end, eluding the bat when it's already flying forward. He connives to throw, from the same unhurried motion, at a wide variety of speeds. Wade...
...weeks ago at the All-Star game. Not one Yankee had been sufficiently dominant to have been voted by the fans to the eight slots they get to fill on the starting team. The other 22 slots were filled by the American League manager: this year Cleveland's Jim Hargrove. He had to choose at least one player from each of the league's 15 teams. Yet he managed to select five Yankees--no mean mathematical feat...
...Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad