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The world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1977 | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

What a pleasure it was to see the two of them again in a great baseball park, clad in the classic threads of the trade that made them famous. The occasion was the 48th All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, and this time Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio were not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 1, 1977 | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

The pieces all demanded a good deal of acting ability. Dance is suited only for ambiguous character, and the Mays, Jim especially, are able to register the succession of differing emotions or the contradiction of several at once that this requires. In "A Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Coy Characterizations | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

FOR THEIR AGASSIZ concert this past weekend, Jim and Lorry May chose five duets, all a certain sort of dance piece, not at all subtle, rather hardened, theater dances in the same sense that there are theater people. If the concert made a statement, it was that the Mays believe...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Coy Characterizations | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

The climax comes in Morton's rendition of "Tiger Rag:" Jim leaps wildly between dance steps, skitters through others, as Lorry flicks a shoulder to off-accented beats. As at a dress ball dragging into the early morning hours, we glimpse odd expressions and actions we're not sure happened...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Coy Characterizations | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

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