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...southpaw sensation of the 1971 baseball season, Pitcher Vida Blue of the Oakland Athletics, has just been named the Most Valuable Player in the American League by the Baseball Writers Association. It made a double for the 22-year-old after only one full season in the major leagues. Last month he won the Cy Young Award as the year's outstanding pitcher...
...Iowa, plus Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and San Francisco-Oakland...
...ante. The scene is now the neo-Honeymooners apartment of Celia and her husband Phil (Simon Oakland), a retired master sargeant. Swede (Conrad Bain), an old army buddy, has just arrived and the two men are up to their elbows in cans of beer and talk of the army, the fights and other things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage...
...mistake--which Sada Thompson manages beautifully. Her characterizations are triumphs of inflection. You never for a minute doubt that her women are all relatives under the skin, yet there is never any danger of the four characters melting into one. All the men involved--particularly Oakland, Bain and Haines--approach their roles with a similar respect for the tribulations of the middle class, although in the case of Coster the results are possibly too casual to force the latecomers to hurry to their seats...
...course it can be pointed out that the Youth Authority was never intended to be an agency of urban redevelopment in a strictly economic sense. But the fact that no significant action was being taken by the state or federal government. at the basic depressed conditions in Watts and Oakland or the chicano barrios or the white trash towns like Stockton meant that there was a definite limit on the possibilities that the early promise shown by the Youth Authority could ever be realized...