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...GRIFFITH, 87, parsimonious owner of baseball's Minnesota Twins--until 1960 the Washington Senators; in Minneapolis. His comments in 1978 on moving the team--which included the assertion that Washington's "black people...put up such a chant they'll scare you to death"--led future Hall of Famer Rod Carew to bolt for the California Angels the next year...
...help with that effort, the board has recruited Rod Wright, president of Attitude Research, a St. Louis polling firm that specializes in school-finance votes. Fortunately for Webster, he has kids in local schools and donates his time. The goal, he advises the board, "is to get people to vote their emotions and aspirations--and not their pocketbooks...
...album loses steam with the next two tracks. The songs inspires the interpretation that Weiland and the rest of the band, after discovering they can still play, do not know what to do with this discovery. "Heaven and Hot Rod" sounds like a weaker track off of thrash-heavy Core, while "Pruno," with its misplaced melancholy overlaying an excessively melodic and syncopated bass line, is reminiscent of a bad Sting song...
...Lucille's story undermines the seriousness of the racism and corruption of the Alabama town. Griffith's performance is also extremely one-dimensional, and her shallow character does little to engender the amount of sympathy from the moviegoing audience that she seems to receive from her sentencing judge (Rod Steiger...
...begin casting with so deft a motion it seems he is drawing currents in the air. His back is to me; I study the latticework creases in his neck. After a few casts, he hooks a female cutthroat that shimmers gold and silver as it resists and bends his rod into a bow, like the Zen archer's. When he pulls in the fish, it wriggles under the arc of the bow before he moves it toward his hand. The trout looks up at him in desperate wonder. He reaches for its mouth and sets it free...