Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Four--"baseball of the High Baroque, surely." A leading object de studie is Ron Guidry, who "is not a thrower...his every pitch, including the slider, contributes to an eloquent major theme built around the keynote, which is the fastball." A most cherished possession is the recollection of "Brooks Robinson's extended doctoral thesis on third-base play, which he presented in the otherwise unnotable World Series...
...style, on Some Girls, stayed spare on Emotional Rescue and blasted back into the past with Tattoo You, certainly the best rock and roll album ever put out by a bunch of guys in their forties. They are now back to where they started, reviving Eddie Cochran and Smokey Robinson on Still Life and shamelessly churning through "Under My Thumb" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" while millions upon millions bellow their approval. In their latest incarnation as rock archivists, the Stones are once again leading the U.S. back to its own great heritage. And by this time, part...
...travelling the U.S. last summer and fall. They could have done a great service to rock and roll by recording only those tunes as a pure tribute to their own roots. As it is, the two best cuts on the return--Eddie Cochran's "Twenty-Flight Rock" and Smokey Robinson's "Goin to a Go-Go"--are both new additions to the Stones vast library of cover versions...
...author traces a series of events spanning from "Registration" to "Grade Reports Issued." The essence of time itself, slipping, fleeing away--the days, weeks, even months--emerges with a subtle power. Accompanying the two page section is an illustration six students sitting beneath a tree in front of Robinson Hall one wearing striped basketball socks. They contemplate their calendars. The summer leaves hang attached to various branches...
...specialty of King's, a wild-maned former Cleveland numbers runner who served four years in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing an associate. King got into boxing with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass and Tiffany Promotions from Cooney's side. "There...