Word: minors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third, however, Harvard's defense caused a minor scare...
...Crimson, which swept last year's doubleheader against the Jumbos, brings a 3-3-2 mark into the game after completing a spring break series of battles with Red Sox minor leaguers...
Among these small events are the fates of his sons. Henry's first novel creates a minor ruckus and earns him a name as one of England's angry young men. He marries his younger brother's sweetheart, Agnes Salter, writes screenplays, divorces, weds an adoring younger woman and becomes a cranky old reactionary. For his part, Fred woos and loses Agnes but decides to follow her father's practice as the village doctor. His new mentor espouses a mission that frees Fred from messianic impulses: "I don't deal in right and wrong. I deal in collywobbles and housemaid...
...there a sweeter, tougher demimondaine than his Mrs. Abington, reflectively sucking her thumb whilst sizing up the audience with a level look annealed by years of prostitution before her stardom as a comic actress. And it would be difficult to imagine a more sympathic portrait of a minor writer than his study of Giuseppe Baretti, shortsightedly scrutinizing a book inches from his eye with the greed of a man devouring an orange. In Reynolds' intimate portraits, the aura of classical make-believe becomes an ironical virtue (it is, after all, hard to take altogether seriously a title like Lady Sarah...
...business as usual around the television show We Are Proud to Present, which provides a few minutes of celebrity to the unusual or notorious. On the face of it, Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) and Amelia (Giulietta Masina), would seem to fit right in. Back in the '40s they were a minor but prosperous dance team, imitating the high romantic style of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in provincial Italian nightclubs and variety houses. Pippo and Amelia are long retired, but their one-shot TV comeback will be a treat for old fans and an astonishment to the younger set, especially...