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...late-night roamer on Boston’s Putnam Avenue was pushed by an unknown assailant who then abruptly ran away last Saturday. The victim approached a HUPD officer and alerted him or her to the walk-by pusher. Police searched the area but to no avail—the shove-and-run perpetrator was nowhere to be found...
...plays woman or man with equal ardor, courtly fixture or cottager with equal ease. Karen MacDonald's Celia matches Jones movement for movement with a perfectly synchronized body and a beautifully tuned voice. But the most ingratiating of the performances is Gerry Bamman's Jaques, a tall forest roamer in a grass toga, unfazed by even the most outrageous of Belgrader's devices, with a pouting, resonant voice that undoubtedly reminded more than one member of the audience of Tony Randall. Bored, not spiteful, puzzled rather than offended by the folly around him, he delivers the set-piece "seven ages...
Slow Start. Indeed, Vachon is an irrepressible roamer around the net. Unsatisfied with merely blocking shots, he constantly sweeps alongside the goal -and even behind it-to clear the puck or start breakaways up the ice. "I like moving around," he says. "If I stayed in the net, I wouldn't be involved in the game and the opposition could score some easy goals...
Then Jerry Fielding's rueful music grows percussively insistent, and breaks into a Rod Hart song about how an Arizona morning could make a Prescott roamer almost want to settle down. The landscape is hard and scrubby, but its color is warm. This is home. Bonner stops at a gas station-fruit market, buys fuel, and apples, and feeds one to his horse. Another frontier Cadillac passes him when he's back on the open road, driven by two rodeo friends with two pretty young ladies. "How you feeling, cowboy?" calls one. "Lonely, right now." "Have a taste...
...first of the majors to act in steel's latest round of price increases, and last week it became the first to report third-quarter earnings, which are so good (up 100%) that they may herald high profits for the entire industry. Glossbrenner is no deskman but a roamer who pops into offices, huddles on the run with his young and fanatically loyal staff, often takes off in one of the company's private planes to close a sales deal if he thinks his presence will help. He has led a civic-reform drive in Youngstown...