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Neither could the Yankee batters. The background was an orange canvas curtain draped over the wire fence in centerfield (to spoil a free view for passers-by). The ball came out of that background and was on top of the batter before he knew it. By the seventh inning, not a Yankee had collected a hit. Murry's Cardinal teammates began to treat him just as if he were pitching a no-hitter in the regular season -when it counted...
...takes a great deal to spoil such a masterpiece as "Don Giovanni," and Messrs. Pinza and Baccaloni sang and clowned their way through three hours of Mozart with great success. With unique genius "Don Giovanni" portrays the interplay of two most fundamental of life's forces: religion and sex. In the cataclysmic conclusion of the opera, when the statue accepts the arrogant nobleman's invitation to dinner, we realize that it can be only a supernatural power which will bring Don Giovanni to his doom. Behind the opera's dramatic end is one of the greatest portrayals of right...
...Miss Hush (Martha Graham) changed his thinking. After the Walking Man, he might try a "Walking Lady, a Baby Hush, or a Burping Baby." The only trouble is "those other quiz shows that glommed on to the idea." If the rivals don't stop, they may spoil the whole thing...
...paints his models traditionally to start with, in tempera and oil glazes to give them a proper glow. Then, as a finishing touch, he adds hundreds of circling red pinstripes, like scratches, to the flesh tones. For Sloan, the pinstripes "clinch the form"; for almost everyone else, they spoil the picture...
...than a hollow sphere), accurate to two-millionths of an inch. Each grinding and polishing was done with fanatical watchfulness. Visitors were asked to remove their shoes, like pious worshipers at the door of a mosque; a single grain of tracked-in sand might scratch up the glass and spoil months of work...