Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...placards blanket (and litter) sections of the city. If he draws many Portuguese voters away from Vellucci, he could upset the council balance. But Vellucci has always thrived on hot fights--he won re-election two years ago shortly after the Boston Globe caught him holding down a no-show job. This year, unendorsed by either of the major slates, he is calling himself "The Lone Ranger." "Al loves it when everyone is after him--it just brings out the sympathy votes," one political observer explains...
...real history of the Boston Red Sox opens with a quotation from the great symbolist himself, William Francis Lee III, now the National League's lefty of the year. There is no man who contains, within himself, all of the triumphs, idiosyncrasies, frustrations and foibles, who can show you, in the final column, that the Red Sox have always been a team of heroes and fools...
...ABOVE ALL, this is a book of fans and their ballplayers, not of people; of the men the fans saw, the media noted, the photographers etched. Rarely does this picture history show the picture that was never printed, the quote that wasn't punctuated by "heck" and "gee" and a series of ellipses...and the closer the history gets to 1979, the less incisive the history becomes...
...want to see the same old Timilty-White show?" Boston School Committee President David Finnegan asked over and over again while campaigning in the preliminaries. Yes, Boston voters answered on September 25, but now they may be having second thoughts. Although the names are the same, this time there are a couple of differences...
...loan he took out before the preliminary. If the state senator is relatively young in years, he's twice his age in political saleability and getting older each time he runs. If there was little personal animosity between the two perennial opponents the first time they played this show, there's a whole lot now. Like Peter the Great in Sweden, Joe Timilty has regrouped and come back to take on the King again. The King's name is not Charles, though. It's Kevin...