Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social significance, the movie includes a player who functions as a sort of Jackie Robinson surrogate. For contrast there is Richard Pryor, an actor-comedian of buckshot brilliance. Pryor calculates every line and gesture for small, explosive effect, and his aim stays true. He shows up here as Charlie Snow, a third baseman who hopes to break into big-league ball by passing himself off as a Cuban...
...Snow's Spanish accent is dismal, so he spends his idle moments attempting to figure out his batting average. He struggles with an intractable decimal point, tries dividing times at bat by number of pitches missed, then multiplying the hits. As Pryor plays him, Charlie is a fellow of wit and resource, and his struggle with these impossible calculations is, much like his whole life, a slowly losing battle against absurdity. Jay Cocks
...notorious commander of Combat Group Peiper, which had killed at least 350 American prisoners and Belgian civilians during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge. In the most infamous of his atrocities, the so-called Malmedy massacre, 86 American prisoners of war were shot down in a snow-covered Belgian field. A war-crimes trial death sentence was later commuted and Peiper was released from Landsberg prison...
...drought extends back almost a year, right through a mild winter with little snow and a dry spring. Now the subsoil is starved for moisture. South Dakota's grasslands, for example, never had a chance to turn green; they are sere and yellow. Crops planted in the spring-oats, barley, durum, hard red wheat and even some corn-have been stunted by the scorching sun. Under normal conditions, they would be knee-high by this time. In many cases, they have, in fact, grown barely six inches tall...
...Plimpton Ploy: swimming against Johnny Weissmuller, boxing a round with Jack Dempsey ("I knew all there was to know about being hit"). Gallico quit the News in 1936 and wrote Farewell to Sport, the first of 41 books, many of them bestsellers. Among his most popular novels: The Snow Goose (1941), Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958), The Poseidon Adventure...