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They toil at a summer's game in sweatshops that are green and airy. The rank-and-filer earns an average of $363,000 a year, not counting shaving-cream endorsements. A major-league baseball player is hardly your typical working stiff...
...films like Last Year at Marienbad demanded to be approached like cryptic crosswords. For upwards of two hours we stretch our intellects to find the key to Wetherby's emotional life. The film's characters do not easily yield to analysis, though they are surely worth the bother. Their stiff upper lips are pursed in ruminative silence. And when they speak, they have something to say; Wetherby is a devilishly clever talk show. Moreover, they inhabit a film that commutes briskly through three time zones in one Yorkshire village--the present, the recent past and 1953--the better to study...
...U.S.S.R., Arbatov has turned the institute, as well as himself, into an active formulator of policy as well as an academic source of information. Although his writings reflect a yearning to return to the détente of the early 1970s, he rarely deviates from the official Soviet line. His stiff criticism in 1981 of U.S. policy led the Administration to refuse to extend his visa so he could appear on a U.S. television program. In a typical laconic response, he told a TV interviewer, "What the Soviet Union is doing is explaining its position to the world. Somehow, your people...
...Patrick will most likely face stiff competition, as Attorney General Thomas Reilly and Secretary of State William Galvin are expected to enter the race in the coming months...
Having a coach was especially helpful during this fall’s auditions, the most competitive yet, according to Cameron. In an ordinary year, the slim 16 spots on the team mean no one is guaranteed a place. This year, competition was so stiff that three dancers who had been members last year were...