Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This spring there was a quiet announcement that he planned to cut a record in Miami, then make a five-week U.S. tour. He is clear-eyed and healthy, but retains some blunt and black views about drugs and musicians. "The same thing that makes a man pick up his guitar and play is the same thing that makes him take any drug he can find," he says...
Besides sheer speed, Brock has a gift for anticipating pitchers' moves. "Every pitcher has a body cadence and rhythm," says Brock. "Once you've learned to read it, you can tell whether he is about to make a pick-off throw, and you can know exactly when you can start toward second." When on first, Brock silently counts a cadence that is synchronized to the pitcher's delivery...
...steal third more often, Brock would still face what Wills recalls as "the sleepless nights in September when the pain from the constant pounding keeps you up all night. After you hit 80, the other players gun for you. The first baseman slams you with his mitt on pick-off attempts, the pitcher concentrates on getting you instead of the batter, and the catcher isn't even behind the plate. On my last steal in 1962, the catcher was over in the batter's box waiting to throw...
...they almost bound off the screen and take on three full dimensions. Chabrol was extradinorily lucky to have access to these quality performances, because when the story begins to sag--as it does in too many places--the actors manage to carry things along until the narrative begins to pick up again...
...documentary is not as sharply edited as it might be. It is at its best when it is showing the Strattons trying to pick up the pieces of their life. A Roman Catholic and a self-disciplined man who worked his way through college, the commander grouses good-naturedly, but with an undercurrent of emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into...