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Donaldson is also to be seen, well prepared, on This Week with David Brinkley, where he and George F. Will work over Prime Ministers, Congressmen and Cabinet members. This is no good-guy, bad-guy team. Will throws out questions from deep rightfield. Donaldson simply goes straight for the jugular. The effect can be unfair, informative and intimidating. The exchange must be fast. Any guest who wants time to reflect risks not being asked back. If he filibusters, he will be interrupted (it takes equal brass, as with Senator Edward Kennedy, to insist, "Excuse me, if I can finish...
...problem, as Spielberg sees it, is the ambition for megabucks: "Everybody is aiming for the rightfield stands." But hatching a blockbuster may be the only way for a film maker to outsmart the deal makers running the big studios. Spielberg and Director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill) recently haggled with two major studios over the rights to Michael Crichton's bestselling novel Congo. "A deal is a work of science fiction," Spielberg says. "I wasted three months learning how not to make one. Eventually, Brian and I walked away. The whole 'movie game' is just...
That just about says it all. What beat the Crimson were mostly mental mistakes, or what Nahigian calls "errors of omission." Like in the disastrous second, when Danny Skaff (rightfield) and Bruce Weller (center) circled under what should have been a routine fly-ball, only to have it drop between them...
Brett cocked his right knee back slightly, strode forward, then whipped the bat in a flat, smooth swing. The result: a screaming triple down the rightfield line and another RBI. Said McGregor: "I gave him some of my best stuff, but George kept hanging in there until he got the pitch he wanted...
...opened the bottom of the first by lining Jones's second offering into right center for a two-bagger. Rick Pearce reached on an error, Skaff trotted home on Kelley's sacrifice fly, and then everyone trotted home when Bingham launched his second roundtripper of the campaign over the rightfield fence...