Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adapted from Euripides by Robinson Jeffers...
...League batting crown, in 1944, led the league with 124 RBl's a year later and had a lifetime .306 average over 18 seasons. His Dodger playing years ended on a bitter note in 1947, however, after he expressed his reluctance to play with his new teammate, Jackie Robinson, the first black major leaguer...
...Direct from the Motor City, the soul capital of America, the man of the hour, the man with the power, the hottest soul sensation since Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson; introducing the wonderful, the marvelous . . . Lily Tomlin!" Lily Tomlin? In her upcoming television special, Tomlin eerily metamorphoses into Purvis Hawkins, "the Messiah of Soul." Purvis is one of three new characters who will join Tomlin's company of creations. The other newcomers: Holly Oneness, a burned-out '60s folk singer, and Agnes Angst, a manic-depressive deeply into the "heavy mental" new wave sound...
...Hoskins is a galvanically repellent actor. Hoskins (seen on PBS in BBC's Pennies from Heaven and Othello) has a torpedo-shaped head attached to a bulldog's body. He moves, and barks out his dialogue, with the arrogant energy of Cagney and Robinson, but with precisely none of their charm. In The Long Good Friday, Hoskins gets to play a Little Hitler of the London underworld out to make a killing in real estate while some mysterious rivals make more spectacular killings of his henchmen. Director John Mackenzie's idea of subtle menace is to show...
...magnolia tree in center field. It was slightly out of range for everyone who ever hit there except Eddie Mathews, who had the only inside-the-tree home run. Major league teams barnstorming north from the spring camps always stopped off to play the Crackers. In 1947 Jackie Robinson first set foot out of Florida there, and 27,000 people overflowed the park. The Ku Klux Klan promised that someone would be shot. Nobody...