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Last Saturday Beebe and her troopers were making phone calls and receiving visitors in a gleaming, air-conditioned office, complete with Bunn-o-matic coffee makers and an offering of Anderson t-shirts, buttons and frisbees. "We work fast," says Beebe with a smile...
Luckily, Strat-o-Matic baseball is a year-round sport and the 1979 cards are in. Soldiers Field may be cold and wet, but there's nothing but warmth inside when I watch Jim Palmer twirl a four-hitter for my San Francisco Seals, winning 4-1 and improving my record to three of four. Keep it quiet, but I think the Seals have the horses...
Approach #6. The Cool-o-Matic Approach. This is it. Sashay your way through Freshman Week without pain or loss of all-important style points. If you want to enjoy your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...
...flashback scenes and her double in the contemporary sequences, has the Garboesque acting skills to match her undeniable beauty, and that requires a much more precarious leap of faith. Finally, because this movie invokes Director Wilder's earlier Sunset Boulevard, we are asked to accept a melodra matic manner of storytelling and characterization that is outmoded by at least a quarter of a century. Settings, dialogue, the very looks on the faces of everyone in Fedora's household teeter on the ludicrous...
Tenth place in 1966. My God--the cellar? The Yankees? Eleven years without a pennant. Turn off Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto or Bill White or Bob Gamere (yes, Bob Gamere) in disgust and open the Baseball Encyclopedia, wallow in history, thrill to past glories. Pull out the Strat-O-Matic Baseball game, play the Old Timers teams: '27 Yankees, or '41 Yankees, or '50 Yankees, or '61 Yankees--dice-rolled greatness. "Babe Ruth comes to the plate, the Bambino, with sixty-count 'em-sixty circuit clouts this year, Lou Gehrig on deck. The Yanks winning this ballgame 12-1, winning, winning...