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...done it," says Lona Mott, a ninth-grader at Franklin Area High School, from which Shingledecker graduated last spring. On Halloween two years ago, she recalls, she and 20 other kids took turns arranging themselves like sardines across a road. When they saw headlights, most bolted, but a few stayed pat. Says Mott: "All my friends were doing it, so I did it. I wasn't even thinking of getting...
This is the ninth stage play that the TNT cable network has sensitively adapted since 1990, including Tennessee Williams' lyrical Orpheus Descending, Jon Klein's rowdy T Bone 'n Weasel and Mamet's own burst of cynicism, The Water Engine. Each has been respected yet retooled to broaden its reach. While A Life in the Theatre is steeped in particulars of the stage, it works as a powerful metaphor for life in any career. Older people are always feeling that tradition is being dishonored and their accumulated lore and knowledge devalued. Younger people always impatiently demand their turn...
Dennis Eckersley, the greatest reliever of all time, came in to pitch the ninth inning, his team up 4-3. He retired the first two batters, and got to a count of one ball and two strikes on Mike Davis, who hadn't hit well all season. From our seats in Dodger Stadium's upper deck, we could see the entire stadium parking lot. It was already emptying out fast as fans tried to beat traffic and make it home. This game was over...
...first baseball memory that I can consciously remember was from the 1980 World Series. Tug McGraw, the Phillies closer, comes on in the ninth and strikes out some faceless Kansas City Royal to win the Series in Game Six, and the Vet goes crazy...
...women's onslaught continued through the rest of the field with Harvard runners taking ninth, 10th, 15th, 17th and 18th...