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...group of guys with sandlot names, Pudge, Spaceman, Yaz and Rico simply don't outmuscle the Machine. It's not in the script; the little guy doesn't fight city hall...
Boston's two best pitchers, however, are extremely likeable and colorful guys, and generally fine throwers, Bill Lee, known as the Spaceman, is Boston's only freak. Recently he lost his temper after a bad day and called the Boston fans "racist," proclaiming that the only man in this town with any guts is Judge Garrity. This precipitated much inane commentary from the press on mixing athletics with social criticism, but on the whole the reporters like him because he's a good source: he may be Lost in Space from time to time but he's got more brains...
...playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany mod-rocker (Coconut, Spaceman). In the poised, warmly expressive style of Flack, 33, the earthy emotions of gospel (Told Jesus) mix with the more polished, sinuous phrasing of jazz (Tryin' Times...
...service module's scientific-equipment bay. There he retrieved film that had been shot by automatic cameras while he was orbiting the moon. "Hey, this is great," said Evans, who waved happily to the TV camera during his 43-minute space walk. "Talk about being a spaceman. This...
Then there's Robert Silverberg's "Sundance", embodying the dilemma of Tom Two Ribbons, "a biologist-spaceman of American Indian descent," and a member of an expedition to eliminate the race of the Eaters, animal pests who obstruct the colonization of an alien planet. When Tom begins to think he perceives an elaborate set of rituals and social relations among the Eaters, is it interplanetary genocide or only the failure of his "psychological reconstruct" to protect him from his own historic past...