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When Hobson finally did ask to be taken out, Jack Brohamer came in and helped to mend the defense. The Red Sox went on to win nine of their last 11 games to tie the Yankees for first place...
...problems aren't going to be solved. To take its community relations conflicts as an example, Giamatti says there will be no effort to establish a plan for Yale to make in-lieu-of-tax payments to New Haven, because Yale doesn't have the money. He wants to mend the fences with an attitude, which begins "before you have to talk about formal policies," he says...
...will get a chance to mend other badly neglected fences during the two-week vacation that he began last Friday. He was scheduled to spend four days at his home in Plains, Ga., a visit that is intended to remind disgruntled Southerners that he is one of them. Then he goes west to Idaho for some rafting on the Salmon River and to Wyoming for some hiking around Jackson Hole. On his return, he must prepare for his summit conference with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In his talks with these two shrewd visitors...
Laura Nyro: Nested (Columbia). The record that asks the question: "Can we mend/ transcend/ the broken dishes of our love?" In pressed wallflower ballads and rhythm and blues slicked up for the cotillion, this garland of lovelorn billets-doux shows no sign of Nyro's lyrical gift. Most of the tunes have to do with being wronged, often romantically, sometimes legally: "Autumn's child is catchin' hell," she sings, "for having been too naive to tell/ property rights from chapel bells." These are the best lines on the record. They are promptly diluted, then wasted, like every...
...spitting out four-letter vulgarities precisely timed to the clicks of his motorized camera. She alienated some of her Gloucestershire neighbors by sacking a milkman who refused to deliver milk for her six-month-old son more than three times a week. Anne has since tried to mend fences by appearing at a village fete, but she is not the sort who is likely to be beloved...