Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLASSMATE lunged frantically into the carpeted splendor of the Essex Country Club locker room, just in time to pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...
...feels about the direction of his career. Pinter's growth has been a spiral turning inward rather than outward. The question is how far he can pursue his ideal at the center before he meets himself coming back. It has always been part of his artistic courage to pitch his plays at the limits of the minimal and rarefied, and part of his importance is that he can make them work. For all its brilliance, Old Times does seem about as minimal and rarefied as a play can be before sterility or self-parody sets in. But then, that...
...show, by standing too much in awe of their prestige, or by being unprepared. He can also be a little less than sophisticated when he feels the spirit. Radical Jerry Rubin moved him to say "Politics bores the ass off me." He once cut off an LSD sales pitch from Timothy Leary with "You're full of crap...
Harvard has an extremely potent offense on paper this spring, but the batting lineup has yet to reach its true potential. Pete Varney has rarely seen a good pitch all season and Dan DeMichele has been the only consistent hitter...
...only danger came in the seventh when Manley reached first on an error and advanced to third when a pick off threw hit his helmet. On the next pitch, Nickens pitched with the runner stealing home. Unable to reach the ball with his bat. UMass's Jack Conroy threw his body at Varney's legs, trying to knock over the 230-lb, catcher. Needless to say he failed, and Manley was out by several yards...