Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spenser: For Hire, based on Robert B. Parker's popular detective novels, the sleuthing moves to Boston. Parker's hero is a "sensitive" private eye who quotes Shakespeare and Wordsworth, dabbles in gourmet cooking and drives a 20-year-old Mustang. Unfortunately, straitlaced Star Robert Urich seems more at home with TV dinners and spy novels, and the pace of the two-hour pilot is plodding. This show seems as dead as the Red Sox's pennant hopes...
Both Madlock and Stargell denied the accusation, which was made again on the stand two days later by Cincinnati Outfielder Dave Parker, a former Pirate. It was an unwelcome charge anywhere, but especially in Pittsburgh, where Stargell is beloved as the man who led the Pirates "family" to its 1979 World Series victory. "I can't believe that Willie would be involved in that," Pirates President Daniel Galbreath said to the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. "In fact, I doubt...
...Pirates' clubhouse and met with players in hotels. Lawyer Renfroe has struggled to cast his client as a little guy who has become the scapegoat for baseball's sins. The players, says Renfroe, are rich "hero junkies" who get immunity while his client goes on trial. Cross-examining Parker, he shouted derisively at one point, "How is it that once you get immunity that you're not going to jail and won't lose your $20,000 diamond rings, that you now remember...
...manager of Au Bon Pain, Douglas Parker, has the right, along with Harvard, to cancel or deny a permit. Citing local gadfly Logan Evans and his trivia game exploits as something he would object to, Parker says simply, "He annoys people...
...Parker allows Spenser full awareness of these conundrums without turning the man of action into an egghead, and brings off the baroque and potentially murky tale with characteristic clarity, humor and excitement...