Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bunt, the hit-and-run or, for that matter, the supposedly hallowed rule that left-handed hitters hit better against right-handed pitchers, and vice versa. He does believe-in The Stats. The Stats, those mysterious denizens of a huge, battered filing cabinet in Weaver's Baltimore office, show every Oriole hitter's performance-lifetime, seasonal and last week-against every American League pitcher. Boston Manager Don Zimmer will start the same man day after day. Not Weaver. He tailors his lineup to the opponent's starting pitcher. "Now take Lee May," Weaver explains. "Here...
...technology has produced cameras that are compact and need no extra light; court rules limit their number and location. Perhaps just as important, people have become accustomed to the pervasiveness of TV. Studies in several states show little evidence that cameras affect jurors or witnesses. At the Bundy trial last week two jurors were blasé enough to fall asleep-on-camera...
...brought serious music to millions of Americans. A snowy-haired, white-mustachioed figure, he would walk briskly onstage and lead his Boston Pops Orchestra in a program of show tunes and classics. His philosophy was simple and insouciant: "My aim has been to give audiences a good time. I'd have trained seals if people wanted them." That was one of Fiedler's exaggerations, though he was not above appearing on a record jacket dressed as Santa Claus or as a jaunty Yankee Doodle dandy. Such clowning caused some highbrows to sneer. But to Boston audiences and those...
...Chorus Line. Prior to this musical, dancers were a brigade of legs locked in animated unity. They have been as anonymous as gypsies, the theatrical term by which they are popularly known. This show probes their origins, their hopes, their dreads, their triumphs and why dancing was in the souls of their feet...
...Best Little Whorehouse in Tex as. No one who is out for an evening of fun will have a better time on all of Broad way. Racy in language but bawdily in nocent, the show is a treat in book, song and dance, and the choicest treat of all is Henderson Forsythe as the sheriff and Carlin Glynn as the madam...