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...teammates were just as immature. After Greg Harris choked away a crucial September game, walking home the tying and winning runs on eight straight pitches, he had the gall to blame umpire Vic Voltaggio for "squeezing the strike zone." After Jack Clark, another multi-million dollar bust, struck out three times in an extra-inning loss, he blamed Morgan for being a lousy motivator. After left fielder Mike Greenwell attacked first baseman Mo Vaughn with a bat, Greenwell blamed the media for "blowing this out of proportion...
...shines, but in a different equation: she has been terrific in a dozen films almost nobody has seen. Her only hit was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and that was a decade ago. Her main roles are as dimwit sluts and babes in bondage. But the daughter of actor Vic Morrow finds subtle shadings in all these parts: the put-upon homeowner in Heart of Midnight, the woozy Delta princess in Sister Sister, the victimized trollop Tra-La-La in Last Exit to Brooklyn and, triumphantly, the pathetic young prostitute in Miami Blues. A ferocious student in the Method tradition...
...when all else fails, there is always her abiding ability to disarm friend and foe alike. On the evening of Agnos' inauguration as current mayor, Barbagelata and his wife Angela were having dinner with a group of friends at Trader Vic's, off Taylor Street, when they saw the tall figures of Feinstein and her husband saunter into the restaurant. Feinstein immediately came over, threw out her arms and said, grinning, "C'mon, John, you ole curmudgeon, give me a kiss!" Barbagelata complied. "What could I do?" he says ruefully. "She's a charmer...
...hoped-for Thanksgiving adjournment approached, Foley and Michel closed ranks again. They limited partisan bickering and promised not to use the pay hike as a campaign issue next year. On Thursday they won a hasty 252-174 vote in favor of the increase. After the victory, task force chairman Vic Fazio of California declared, "We have decided to reinvest in this institution and take the responsibility for its future...
...PROFILE: Vic Braden never met a sport he didn't like...