Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score; he seemed ready to take the long walk to the showers when he got an unexpected reprieve from the Cards' Lou Brock, justly famed as the National League's most expert baserunner. Heading for home with a sure run, Brock unaccountably failed to slide under the high, late throw. He came in standing up, crashed into Catcher Bill Freehan and was tagged easily. The rally that might have ended the Series was snuffed out. Two innings later, Detroit scored three runs, and Lolich, growing stronger with each pitch, blanked the Cards the rest...
HERBIE HANCOCK, SPEAK LIKE A CHILD (Blue Note). This piano album is a fine montage of pastel moods. Delicately blended harmonic shades slide and merge in misty orchestrations of Speak and Goodbye to Childhood (with Thad Jones on flügelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute). In Riot, First Trip and Sorcerer, the piano skips along with mellow modal lines and bright blues splashes. Drummer Mickey Roker and Bassist Ron Carter are Hancock's hearty helpers...
Mellowed Nixon. Like many of the commentators on the left this year, Mailer is much more charitable toward the Republican Convention than the Democratic. He was surprised himself at his diminished hatred for Nixon. The man still suffered from slickness. "His ability to slide off the question and return with an answer is as implicit in the work of his jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete...
...insist that 3 Sisters does not march. It is not a murder mystery, although someone is murdered. No one is apprehended, nothing is resolved. The final statements are made in silence.)...involve us in seeing the moments. You will find that as the black magic and deathly wonders slide overhead, the characters are nevertheless human...
...vagueness." As Rabelais drones on in a voice reminiscent of "old curtains," Jimmy feels "woofed more and more tightly into an endless tapestry." The poor lad cannot tell whether his questions are being answered, or even remember exactly what the questions were. For consolation he flicks mentally through colored-slide images of the post-World War II America that he thinks he misses...