Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit to Washington without a souvenir snapshot with the White House as a backdrop? If you are a VIP tourist like sunny Suzanne Somers or smooth Donald Sutherland, however, the memento is a little more exotic. Shooting scenes in the capital for Nothing Personal, a comedy in which they play two lawyers fighting a nefarious corporation while falling in love with each other, Somers and Sutherland took time out for a peek at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Jimmy Carter was busy and Rosalynn was out of town as they rolled up to the gate in his and her studio limousines...
...live and practice together six days a week in Colorado Springs, under the auspices of the newly invigorated U.S. Volleyball Association. Mostly in their mid-20s, they have interrupted college, romances and careers to serve and spike. Said Janet Baier, 24, an aspiring cellist from St. Louis: "I can play the cello till I'm 90, like Casals did, but I can only play volleyball...
...American men's basketball team was an artistic success but a Scoreboard failure, finishing fifth. Hastily recruited from the second tier of amateur players-most of the best played instead in the Pan American Games-the youthful Americans were unschooled in international rules and woefully short on muscle and experience. Nevertheless, their fluid fakes and brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence...
...weeks ago, Munson acknowledged that injuries would prevent him from remaining a catcher full time, but he said that he wanted to continue playing, mostly because of his son Michael, 4. "I want to play long enough for him to understand and appreciate what I have accomplished," he said. "If I have three or four more good years, I might have the kind of statistics that could get me in the Hall of Fame...
...Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl...