Word: softer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rawlings has the whole ball manufactured in Haiti, whereas Spalding made the balls domestically and shipped them to Haiti-where labor is cheaper-to be stitched. One theory is that the extra trip made Spalding's balls softer; they suffered from jet sag. Absurd? Sure. But what else is there to talk about on Grapefruit League buses? Tax shelters...
...Ever wonder why someone doesn't try softer...
Neither a hawk nor a dove, Brown is a pragmatist suspicious of prevailing views. Says an old friend, Rand Corp. Economist Charles Wolf: "If exposed to hard-line views, he is likely to take softer ones, and if exposed to soft-line views he is likely to take harder ones." Says Teller: "Harold is a realistic, nondoctrinaire person...
...star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...
There was something darkly enigmatic about the original Kong. Fay Wray had stirred the softer side of his nature and forced him, as it were, to re-examine some of his premises. But no matter how tenderly he picked her up, one never knew whether he would lose control of his enormous strength and destroy what he seemed to love. The very blankness of his expression reinforced the anxiety. When the old Kong breaks loose in New York, he is angry-no question about it. He will have his vengeance on his captors and on those who come to gawk...