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These fragments of a sometimes combative personality lead to a precarious seesaw act within the band. "I haven't much team spirit," Sting confesses. "Relationships in the band are difficult. We have large egos, large talents, large personalities." Laughs Copeland: "Sting can't dominate because he's outnumbered. With the Police, it's always two against one." Admits Summers: "We're too pussyfooted to hit each other. We haven't got down to physical blows yet. But it gets pretty tense sometimes...
Pendergast's efforts capped off a seesaw struggle in which each team had threatened at least once to turn the game into a rout. The visitors held a 2-0 edge at the end of the first quarter, and a 3-1 lead midway through the second--but it was only their consistently wide shooting that kept the score from being more one-sided...
...covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high-pressure pattern is locked over Australia, while the South American coast is awash with heavy, humid air. Says Eugene Rasmusson, chief climate analyst of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): "Every few years there is a seesaw effect, and there are dramatic results around the earth...
...most selective and elite readership--Angell's style is more poetic, more intellectual. In "barroom Comparative Literature seminars," the professors of baseball spend countless hours discussing their relics. The hard-fought 1980s Astros-Phillies championship series included four extra innings games which were "Lovre pieces" highlighted by the seesaw Game 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...
...Tony for Seesaw almost ended his career as a performer, and he was not offered new parts, probably because producers thought he would be too expensive. He tried a nightclub act and was roundly panned, which left what he calls a "huge scar." He was praised, however, for his direction of a feminist revue, The Club, in 1976 and for the current off-Broadway hit Cloud 9. It is as director and choreographer that he is now generally known. "Performers get applause," he says ruefully. "Directors get gray hairs...