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...close in color to poultry, but the average serving of pork contains at least twice as much fat as does a piece of turkey or chicken. Pork is not a white meat, no matter how much "producers want to distance themselves from beef, which they perceive as a loser," notes Liebman. The rehabilitation of real food may have begun, say health experts, but it still has a long...
Craig, 57, has had a lively life in baseball since leaving a North Carolina farm for Brooklyn in 1955 to pitch in the first big league game he ever saw. He was a 20-game loser (twice) for Casey Stengel's fledgling Mets. Recently he coached Sparky Anderson's pitchers to a World Series championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like...
That was, and remains, the Mastroianni character. But Mastroianni the artist is more complex, a creator of delicious surprises and subtle tonal shifts. Romano, the ebullient loser he plays in Nikita Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes, is a virtual anthology of Marcello males, and the actor finds vibrant life in each of them. In his rich wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years...
...this game did not turn on home runs, although three were hit. It turned on defense and speed--with Randy Bush stealing two bases in the pivotal Minnesota fourth to tie the playoff record--and that made a loser for the first time in postseason of Morris, the free agent the Twins didn't want...
Morris had a 1-0 playoff and 2-0 World Series record, all compiled in 1984 when the Tigers won the Series. The loser of his last three regular-season decisions, Morris, who went eight innings allowing six hits with three walks and six strikeouts, wasn't any more effective this time out as the Twins continued their winning ways at home...