Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Riggs had no such confidence. He had tuned into the public eye as taunter of the Cause, and his mouth put him treacherously far out onto the line. The chauvinist pitch was only his means to exploit the public temper. So he sloganeered like a mechanical mouthpiece,. or the little kid who recites what he's heard from his parents' discussions -- not because he understands the import of the phrase, but because he'd seen it trigger an excitement...
...back one May afternoon and recovered for a brief instant the intuitive skills of earlier springs. A Pittsburgh sportswriter had kept him propped against a bar the night before until 5 a.m., but no matter. With three swings, the Babe hit homers 712, 713 and 714, driving the final pitch completely out of Forbes Field...
Thanks to Anouilh's vividly ironic vision, much of the evening is howlingly funny. Wallach has always possessed perfect comic pitch and he displays it again here. However, he lacks that certain panache which makes St. Pé a duelist with destiny rather than a Good Soldier Schweik taking fate's pratfalls. Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts...
...football scrimmage was that I was eager to learn what kind of team Harvard would offer this year. That reassured me for a while. Until it dawned on me that Harvard was running but one series of plays every time they had the ball. Man in motion left. Pitch left. Off tackle. Man in motion right. Pitch right. Off tackle...
...tooled escutcheon (a razorback rampant on a field of Pampers). In search of a new role, he discovered that statements like "a woman's place is in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order" got him publicity, so he kept repeating them. Then he aimed the chauvinist pitch at women's tennis. Billie Jean King and a few other leading players had been attracting attention with their demands for better treatment and larger purses for women. King, in particular, became something of a heroine of the women's movement, although, like Mrs. Riggs...