Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the jungle-this is the Dominican Republic now-comes the ball on the fly to home plate. Into the woods runs our scout, and there was this kid, José González-" Lasorda presents a strapping 6-ft. 2-in. outfielder whose uniform number, 77, signals that he is a farm hand. "Just 18 years old!" Lasorda exclaims. "See, we grow our own." It is a fact that the Dodgers have provided the National League's past four Rookies of the Year, and the candidate of the moment is Brock, who on the strength of 17 major...
...photo album for the first year alone threatens to be a three-volume work, but the kid could probably cause shutter flutter no matter who his parents were. At Kensington Palace, nine-month-old Prince William the Charmer sat not entirely still for just one more photo session. The young royal intermittently bared his six new teeth, chewed on a daffodil, and hugged his stuffed koala, perhaps in anticipation of the family's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. Breaking with a tradition that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince...
...anthropologist's mother lode. It combines musical influences as disparate as disco, George Clinton funk, conventional R & B and Ennio Morricone scores for Italian westerns, cross-pollinates them with the Jamaican disc jockey's art of "toasting" (talking over the instrumental breaks in records) and a street kid's fondness for boasting, synthesizes the results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays set the needle down in the groove of a record, turn the disc back and forth...
...Symphony performing a bit of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. A run on velvets and silks? For just one movie-studio dinner, velvet and silk and chiffon were turned into half a million dollars' worth of dresses; custom-made hats (at up to $500 each) and long white kid gloves ($150 a pair) were de rigueur much of the week...
...might lower the banners, Thompson wonders, "Should it be up to him? We've received letters from people trying to rationalize the abuse, to justify it. 'He should get used to it,' they say. 'It comes with the territory.' Do we want a young kid to get used to this...