Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Angell is no newcomer to the task of writing about baseball: he's done it for years, and is responsible for such books as The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Late Innings, all of which convey his love of the game. He shares technical secrets with other diehard baseball fans--those who don't have the opportunity to sit down and discuss the finer points of the game with the likes of Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, and Dan Quisenberry, as he does. Season Ticket, a collection of Angell's reminiscences on the 1983 through 1986 baseball seasons...
...Most of us fans fall in love with baseball when we are children... These infatuations are ferociously battered and eroded by various forces...the failure of many players to live up to our expectations for them, both on the field and off the field; and...by the wearisome heartbreaking difficulty of the sports which inexorably throws down last year's champions, exposes rookie marvels as disappointing journeymen, and turns lithe young stars into straining old men...Baseball is absorbing and sometimes thrilling, but it is also unrelenting; it is rarely pure fun for any of us, players or fans...
...home. Smart move. Taped for broadcast on CBS on May 27, the show may sound better on television than it did live in Carnegie Hall. But it did have its high points: Broadway and TV Star Nell Carter hip-hopping through Alexander's Ragtime Band, Michael Feinstein singing I Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification, an overpowering brass section, Bea Arthur's oomphless Hostess with the Mostes' and Leonard Bernstein's self- indulgent twelve-tone parody of A Russian Lullaby. Bernstein was also notable for ad hoc choreography...
...first to spot the signs was Big Bird. Last December Luis and Maria, co- workers at the local Fix-It Shop, were acting funny. "Why would grownups need to hold hands to cross the street?" Big Bird wondered. Love was in bloom on Sesame Street, and last week, despite the ominous date -- Friday the 13th -- Luis (Emilio Delgado) and Maria (Sonia Manzano) were married in a ceremony attended by all their friends, both human and Muppet. "It's a simple message we're dealing with," said Lisa Simon, one of the show's producers. "You become a family by forming...
Hamilton's search for Salinger leads him into the author's fiction, where he finds autobiographical inspiration. The city and suburban settings of Nine Stories reflect Salinger's Manhattan youth and his adult stint among the commuters of Westport, Conn. The soldier in the magical For Esme -- with Love and Squalor suffers from a case of nerves not unlike the symptoms Salinger described in a letter to Hemingway. Models are identified for members of the Glass family, the precocious and haunting characters who ride the time loops of stories as early as A Perfect Day for Bananafish and as late...