Word: player
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produce as entertainment fare. And to compete in the glitzy arena of The Cosby Show and Dallas, stars are a must. Other entertainment elements are creeping into these shows as well. On Prime Time Live, Sawyer and Donaldson will be joined by an unusual (for a news show) featured player: a live studio audience. Both Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow and the revamped West 57th will feature dramatized "re-creations" of events, a dubious enterprise that blurs the line between news and entertainment. (Even ABC's World News Tonight tried the technique two weeks ago, with mock-documentary footage ostensibly showing suspected...
...moments came early in his career--replacing Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams in left field in 1961, leading the American League in batting in 1963 and capturing the Triple Crown in 1967 (he is still the last player to accomplish that feat), when he almost single-handedly led the Red Sox to the "Impossible Dream" pennant...
...Pressure? What pressure," Yaz asked Sunday when asked about the "rigors" of being a major league baseball player. "Pressure is what faces millions and millions of fathers and mothers trying to earn a living every day to support a family to give it comfort, devotion and love. That's what pressure really...
...company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...
Amid a tang of perspiration and perfume, 60 women in shiny tights and baggy T shirts strut to the strains of Jailhouse Rock. In the large, carpeted room, the instructor, sleek as a seal in a chocolate-colored unitard, takes the Elvis song from the record player when it finishes and puts on George Michael's Kissing a Fool. She cocks a hip and asks the women: "Will anyone else be kissing a fool today?" She is answered by a breathless chorus: "Yeah!" "I know I will...