Word: plate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rossa. It is an uncannily predictive drawing. "The Mickey Mouse face," Steinberg remarks, "is sexless, neither black nor white, without character or age: for me it represents the junk-food people, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." An encyclopedic disgust pervades these drawings. But it is not a common emotion in Steinberg's work. In general, he is a paragon of detachment: he is, as the title of one of his books announces, the Inspector, imperturbable, restless and nosy...
...Yastrzemski said. He shanked one of the pitches back into the batting cage and slammed his bat against the plate in frenzied frustration. Perfection's sake, the dude was serious. He laced the next pitch past the outfielders, whooping with Little League glee in celebration of his power...
Meanwhile, in the Harvard batter's box, a super mound performance by Ravinas coupled with the Crimson's ever-dwindling hit totals to produce nothing short of ineptitude at the plate...
Easy-going because the MIT hitters were guessing all day at the plate, and guessing wrong. Crazy because, well, what else can you call a one-hitter where the only hit is a first-inning bunt single...
...rightfielder Jim Peccerillo walked with one out and was replaced by pinch runner Danny Bowles. Bowles went to third on Halas's single up the middle, and came sliding home under a high throw when MIT second baseman Jeff Felton tried to make a play on him at the plate on Bobby Jenkins's chopper...