Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baseball, though, was the pathetic support given the Yankees as they swept a four-game series from the still world-champion Toronto Blue Jays last week: 69,303 in aggregate attendance, or an average of 17,326 a game. Granted, owner George Steinbrenner does everything he can to knock the Bronx and nothing to promote the Bombers, but the weather was glorious, the situation enticing and the scalpers so generous that they were selling tickets for less than face value. Baseball is clearly in trouble when the most famous team in the world in one of the biggest cities...
Williams headed the ball off a Harvard corner kick from the right side, and B.U. goalie Bryan Murphy's attempt to redirect the shot over the net failed. Instead, the ball bounced off the crossbar and fell in front of the net waiting for a Harvard player to knock it in. Viders...
Which is where Sid's brothers--the Unstrung Heroes of this movie's title--come in. They live behind multilocked doors, surrounded by tons of old newspapers, in a downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...almost hear the inmates nod when Chapman sings about guys who "hang around me like a bad debt." The convicts cheer when a Chapman woman takes control--when one announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you." But she's not all whine and neurosis; the set traces an arc of anger, resolve and transfiguration. As Chapman explains to the prisoners, with an I've-been-saved smile in her voice, she finally did find true love--with a prison doctor...
...Amato cautioned those who think Clinton will be an easy straw man to knock down...