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...Then why do action films peddle weapons of mass-media destruction to the audience? M:i:III has more cool hardware than a defense-industry trade show. It revels in the balletics of ballistics, the exploding orangeness of a fireball, the crystal shower as a body is propelled through plate glass. Fret at length...
...that I had watched, with contentment, from immediately behind O’Donnell Field’s backstop, a steady stream of Ancient Eight hitters hang their heads and drag their bats back to the dugout after watching another deceptive curveball break over the heart of the plate for called strike three. Now that I knew my pubescent wrist wouldn’t shatter if I tried to snap one off. Now that I could be sure Trotman wouldn’t turn on a hanger...
...park, go-ahead three-run homer. “It’s good to see the team fight back like that,” captain Morgan Brown said. “Steffan had a big hit.” For Wilson, who has been inconsistent at the plate of late and struck out in his two previous at-bats, it may have been the slump-buster he was looking for. “Absolutely mashed,” Brown said of Wilson’s home run. “That ball was stroked. That?...
...meets me on the third floor of the Carpenter Center, with the low afternoon sun streaming through the large plate-glass windows. She has recently been awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts by the Office for the Arts (OFA). She wears a black military flight suit. Her pinstriped pants hang on a hanger in one window. She walks with a determined step, her feet set wide...
...swagger from the dugout demonstrate one of the reasons that the Crimson fares so well with the senior masher in the lineup. Besides his powerful bat--Klimkiewicz ranks fifth in the league with a .358 average and first in runs batted in with 41--he brings confidence to the plate. “Having him in the middle, especially RBI situation,” head coach Joe Walsh said, “you can just see how the other team pitches him. It just sets the tone, you know? He’s standing up there like he?...