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Much-heralded pitcher Mark Lemongello hurled more chairs than strikes last year, and wound up the season with a petulant 6.29 ERA.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: What If the Blue Jays Abscond With the A.L. East Crown? | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

The Knapps of Falling in Place are typical. Marriage for Louise and John survives by inertia. A divorce requires action and that is precisely what they are unwilling to take, or incapable of taking. Instead they have a vague arrangement: John comes home to Connecticut on weekends for picnics and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Summer of Discontent | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

In any sport-wide contract dispute, public opinion and the press seem to lay the presumption of guilt on the players. The players, who make the six-figure salaries that most Americans will never even approach, appear to be motivated in their labor action only by the petulant greed of...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: No Future for Pastimes | 4/8/1980 | See Source »

"I'm not sure I love it," a woman says I in the petulant monotone of the Total Shopper, her eyes two emerald-rimmed pinpoints inside a huge cloud of cherry fox. She is definitely post-mink. Her personality calls for skunk, or perhaps tree sloth (to match her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Mink Is No Four-Letter Word | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Part of the trouble is in the writing and part in the playing. For a boy-meets-girl play to exercise its potential magic, there must be beguiling charm and a contagious affection. Farrow and Perkins project neither. Farrow's Phoebe is naive without the endearing thread of home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love Apples | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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