Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spitball," actually, is a generic term. Sweat performs as well as spittle, and all a pitcher has to do is mop his brow on a steamy afternoon to make the ball misbehave. Gaylord Perry, who won 21 games for the San Francisco Giants in 1966, is more theatrical: he uses his fingers as a tongue depressor. Detroit's Dennis McLain (1967 record: 16-14) and California...
...many people," sighs Pianist Daniel Barenboim, "regard music as a matter of ability." In Barenboim's case, that is understandable enough. At 24, the short (5 ft. 6 in.), mop-haired Israeli has the ability in his small hands to master the full range of keyboard sounds and effects. Barenboim shrugs it off. Technique is essential, but what counts more is musicianship...
...would be encouraging if the hippies [July 7] were all motivated by the love, honesty and desire for independence from material possessions that you attribute to them. It appears, however, that you are describing the extreme minority. The tragedy of the hippies is that the great majority of these mop-haired, dirty escapists are simply overindulged kids who have had too much of everything that an affluent society can provide them. Now they want all the privileges of our society but none of the responsibilities. We are fooling ourselves when we look for the hidden good in them while totally...
Born. To Sybil Burton Christopher, 38, silver-haired ex of Richard, and hostess of Manhattan's rockingly successful Arthur discotheque, and Jordan Christopher, 26, mop-pop guitarist who is Arthur "music director": their first child, a daughter (she has two other daughters by Richard, he has one by his former wife); in Manhattan...
When the curtain rises, the time is 1900, and Cinderella-here named Georgina-is in "the white folks' kitchen," mopping. Her mama, a five-by-five fortress of a woman (Lillian Hayman), argues that a mop is a Negro girl's best friend. But Georgina (Uggams) begs her prince charming, a Pullman porter named Clem (Robert Hooks), to take her away from all this. Together, they take the overground railway North...