Word: ruth
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...role model anymore, but Pete Rose has found what may be a model role. This week the onetime Cincinnati Reds star, who is barred from baseball for gambling, will begin filming The Babe Ruth Story, an NBC made- for-TV movie. Rose will play Ty Cobb, the volatile Detroit outfielder who reigned as baseball's best hitter every year but one (1916) between 1907 and 1919. Talk about typecasting! Rose broke Cobb's long-standing record for most hits (4,191) in 1985 and went on to collect 4,256 before retiring in 1986; like Cobb, he had a reputation...
Virtually every state is going after a piece of the $400 billion worth of foreign investment in the U.S., and the fight is getting ugly. Ruth Fitzgerald, Will County's take-no-prisoners development director, has brought 13,000 new jobs into the county (pop. 357,313) since 1985 and has no illusions about the painful struggles involved. "You have county against county, city against city and state against state," she says. "You have to wonder whether pitting states against each other is worth the return in the long term...
...early dance inspiration was surprising: Ruth St. Denis, who charmed audiences with free-form creations perfumed with the exoticism of the Orient. Entranced, Graham joined the Denishawn company, but left in 1923 to try Broadway dancing. By 1926 she had formed a group, which performed in New York. The masterpieces began to flow, as they would over several decades. There was a cluster of distinctively American works, such as Letter to the World, about Emily Dickinson, and the ever vernal Appalachian Spring. Though a quintessential modernist, she was attracted to doomed classical heroines: Clytemnestra, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra...
Duckworth's Evelyn is too strong-willed to be as confused as she is throughout the play, although her conviction makes the jarring ending somewhat credible. Mecca Nelson brings life to the flat, emotionless Ruth, Evelyn's roommate. Tim Nelson's cameo as a radical, energetic speaker captures the emotional tension of the civil rights movement, and he succeeds in making his dogmatic lines interesting and even inspirational...
Another protestor, Professor of Biology Ruth Hubbard, said, "The Kennedy School is more responsible for the wars that the United States is involved in than the arms manufacturers...