Word: shoeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think of as the ennobling virtues...
...People, Change. Entrance is up a winding ramp. Windows, to be filled with curving panes of Plexiglas, come wherever they naturally fall, between the ribs of the construction. Floors curve into walls and walls into ceilings, with no inter ruption and no corners. Designed for shoeless clambering, the interior is a plexus of balcony hideaways, ramps, hanging screens, near-flat areas with shelves for seats, and even a waterfall in the master bedroom. "Of course a building shouldn't be a box," Kiesler explained last week, perching by his model like a bird overlooking its nest. "It shouldn...
...sawed-off Napoleon was a wiry Chicago southpaw pitcher named Dickie Kerr who had just won his second game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati Reds (who took...
Perhaps the most impressive facet of the show, aside from its general high spirits, is the superlative choreography of Bob Fosse. Particularly impressive are the routines "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." and "Who's Got the Pain?" The lyrics and music are gay and spritely, never flat and sometimes very winning. "You Gotta Have Heart" and "Two Lost Souls" are the most appealing products of Messrs. Adler and Ross's song-smithing. The singing is generally good and Gary Cockell, Howard Krieger, and Roger Franklin's raucous rendition of "You Gotta Have Heart" brings down the house...
...coast. Rene Gagnon and John Bradley took it in stride, but Ira Hayes, a shy and bewildered Pima Indian, found the hero's role hard to play. Increasingly, he sought escape in drinking, drifted from job to job. Fifteen months ago he was picked up in Chicago, shoeless, shaking and incoherent, and jailed for drunkenness. In 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk; efforts of friends, doctors, clergymen and Alcoholics Anonymous could do nothing to help...