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...sequence, Death, reclining on the Brooklyn Bridge, extracts a cigar from his voluminous cape and looks around for a light. He flicks a convenient jet into the path of another airplane and casually lights the stogie from the crash. Eventually, the great green scaly three-mouthed mumbling monster God shows up for the final summing-up, sends Life and Death off to run another planet, and pronounces, "You're on your...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Short and Sweet | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

...Reds left no doubt what they were most concerned with when they had their turn in the field. As batters stroked shot after shot either off the Green Monster or into the screen that tops it, outfielders tossed baseballs against the wall and scoreboard to see how the ball bounced off it. Johnny Bench cockily strode into the batting cage and sent four pitches in a row over the fence, three of them over the screen. Tony Perez next stepped in and put one out of the park and then Bench came back to smash two more into Landsdowne Street...

Author: By James W. Runic, | Title: By Jiminy | 10/15/1975 | See Source »

...Laake and Ed Sullivan, Quincy House juniors, were two of the Green Monster's disciples. "We arrived just about midnight," Laake said, "and there were about 800 people in front of us, so we camped down in sleeping bags right under the right field wall and tried to go to sleep. I'm from Cincinnati and a big Reds fan but I wasn't about to advertise that last night...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Fenway Faithful Seek Series Tickets | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

...seasons was graced with Series tickets through a friend who was "stuck" with an extra, Solomon reflected on his experience as a bleacher bum, "Fenway Park is a tough field to learn. You've got to know the ins and outs of the different concession stands. With the Green Monster out there you might make one misguided move to get something to eat and blow the whole game right there...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Fenway Faithful Seek Series Tickets | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

...bracket of time in which he happened to live. He shared neither its energies nor its Angst. He saw modernity as a threat, an encroachment of "terrible simplifiers" on the sturdy, randy freedom of the gypsy artist. "I feel myself personally outraged and assailed by a horrible and inhuman monster," he bombinated in 1908, "a monster begotten by brute Stupidity upon terrified Ignorance, weaned in the lap of Hypocritical Conceit and sponsored by Vulgarity Triumphant-in other words the hideous Dragon of Democratic, Altruistic, Authoritative, Purblind, Pragmatical, Grandmotherly Legislative Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Man | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

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