Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the owners began to learn how to promote their clubs. Says Art Clarkson, a major shareholder and general manager of the Birmingham Barons: "The days of opening the gates and letting people in are over. We've had to get into the merchandising business." As in the majors, the minor-league clubs started ball, hat, bat and sweatband nights. Then the farm teams added a few gimmicks all their own. Several clubs offer home-plate weddings to their fans. Anyone attending a Birmingham Barons game can order a birthday cake brought to his seat and watch his name being...
...Culinary Institute in New York City, Pastry Chef Beth Hirsch, 32, came to Elmsford, she says, because "I've always worked in chocolate, but I needed more skills." Neal Pelcher, 29, a baker for a New Jersey supermarket chain, wants to open his own pastry shop and needs to learn classic methods. "If I can make it this way," he says, "I can do anything...
...Merchant of Venice to L.A. Law, courtroom scenes have been a staple of drama. Increasingly, trial attorneys like Harpell are consulting actors and drama coaches to bring more theater into the real-life courthouse. In acting seminars across the nation, lawyers are paying $150 or more an hour to learn how to improve their performances before judges and juries. Says Actress Katherine James of Applied Theater Techniques: "Ten years ago, lawyers asked what we could possibly have to teach them. Now they call us up and cry, 'Help...
...love feast in Atlanta. It also seemed to undermine Dukakis' reputation for efficiency and suggest that before the campaign is over, he may have a rendezvous with his own arrogance. If selecting Bentsen, as Dukakis said, is the "first presidential act I will ever do," he had better quickly learn a more presidential way to handle such delicate tasks...
...Over the course of ten years' trying, you learn a lot," Travis allows. "Even if you're not very smart, you can learn a lot." He has plenty to show for his efforts, like a new $500,000 whirlpool-equipped tour bus, which replaced the converted bread truck and delivery van that used to freight the musicians from gig to gig. He can also take off-road consolation in the property he just bought in Cheatham County, 20 miles out of Nashville, where he and Hatcher share a renovated century-old log cabin...