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...PAST few years, the owners, the general managers and the sport's other philistines have seemed bent on sanitizing and refurbishing the image of the national pastime. They installed flashy vending stands, digital clocks, and electronic scoreboards. They initiated all types of commercial gimmickry. With these vain and deluded efforts, they have hoped to turn baseball into a business. But the fans, like Fidrych, know better...
...much as $250,000, to be repaid in up to 20 years at the virtual giveaway interest rate of 3%. The eligibility rules, moreover, were written so loosely that far more farmers qualify than anyone expected. Sadly concedes Democratic Congressman Robert Giaimo, whose House Budget Committee has tried in vain to keep a lid on the program's overflowing costs...
Please tell Mr. Savit to stop taking my name in vain. Sincerely yours...
...copies of this silly magazine--which gets thrown from the top of Holyoke Center every week by crazed futurists who think it's going to end up in another galaxy--blew out there one day, and the rest is history. 1342, if I may be so momentarily vain. Everybody should write to (Being Witheld), and to Heather, the Tuesday-night Bates receptionist and phone-charmer, who also lives on the second floor, and hence prompted me to coin the silly disco-oriented joke, "Heather on the second floor," when I called her asking to talk to (Being Witheld). (Being Witheld...
Spence Taylor and Herb Larsen provide comic relief to comic relief in the Shakespearean characters of Henry, an aging, vain, forgettable actor and his companion Mortimer, whose specialty is spectacularly acrobatic feigned death. They are hilarious in their early scenes, and successfully make the transformation to guileful roughnecks in the second...