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...movie retells the story of one of the theatre's (Ibsen's) first angry women. Or at least the first to slam the door on her husband and children and on the Victorian respectability that buttressed a lifetime of security. Having been educated to believe that men were better, Nora is unconscious of her oppression. It is so built into her head that it takes her the whole movie to see it, much less to summon the guts to rebel against...
...Grand Slam...
Victory at Belmont would make Secretariat the first winner of the Triple Crown for three-year-olds since Citation turned the trick a quarter-century ago. He would be only the ninth horse in 91 years to accomplish the grand slam. The odds against any modern horse finishing first in all three races have grown longer every year. When Citation did it, he was one of about 6,000 three-year-old thoroughbreds on the books of the Jockey Club. Flat racing has become far more popular and populous since then, and Secretariat started out with about 25,000 contemporaries...
...Browns' Pete Gray, does not even have a stump under which to tuck his glove while throwing the ball. He puts the ball in his mouth while removing his glove. If it gets stuck there, the result can be as costly as "an inside-the-mouth grand-slam home...
Cepeda drilled his sixth homer of the season and the ninth bases-loaded slam of his career to lead the Sox in a five-run third inning scoring binge...