Word: walking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hanging tough with their hero. In the heart of the city, Republican women work a phone bank-they expect to make 50,000 calls by Election Day-under a banner identifying them as "Jerry's Angels." Croons one: "We don't have any trouble getting volunteers. People walk in off the street. Everybody knows Jerry Ford...
...because a film has run for five years it must be ineffably beautiful and sensitive, or at the very least, that they must see it to find out. King of Hearts isn't actually a bad film--you wouldn't actually turn it off the late late show or walk out on it as the second half of a double bill unless you'd eaten too much popcorn--but it has no conspicuous merits that could justify its return...
...patriarch admits to death his incapacity for the love "we," the people he commands, represent. His efforts to fill that void with the solitary vice of power only produced hollow lies, he admits at the last; cardboard constructions which "we," the people of everyday, soon learned to walk around and ignore, leaving him to act alone on the set built of his barren lust...
...fourth Sandy Koufax no-hit us (I was angry at Dad because he was cheering for a no-hitter while I wanted Johnny Klippstein to break it up with two out in the ninth.) The highlight of that game was Richie Allen's--yes, Richie then--leadoff walk in the seventh inning. He was picked-off on the next pitch. Those were the days when we felt a right to boo. But sometimes we over-extended that right: after hitting three home runs in one night Allen was jeered for striking out in his fourth appearance...
...team's new manager. Rizzuto was gray by 1975 and wore inexplicably large tinted aviator glasses which made him look like a 1,000,000X blown up slide of a house fly. If I were pretending to be omniscient I would tell you how Rizzuto felt watching Martin walk on the field to a huge ovation. ("Phil felt a lump in his throat as big as a hardball . . . he remembered how Casey had always said Billy would someday manage the Yankees...