Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta couple is harassed by obscene telephone calls after they and their eight children appear on a television commercial for a laundry detergent. The Good Samaritan, a large hospital in Los Angeles, closes down its maternity ward as the number of abortions in the area approaches the number of live births. Underused elementary schools are turned into bakeries or motels. Young people gather in Manhattan's Central Park to honor the "nonparents of the year" and celebrate their childlessness in a "non-fertility rite" complete with dancing...
...Miller or Thieves Like Us) have a look of surprise, of the familiar transposed in some evasive but still palpable way. Once again he enjoys the collaboration of his excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed in gambler's jargon, are like the running response of some lost congregation. They are Altman's chorus...
There is no other delivery like it in baseball. After winding up with a spasmodic ensemble of twitches, hesitations and jerks, Boston Red Sox Righthander Luis Tiant turns his back to home plate, kicks toward third, then spins around to ward the batter like a pirouetting ballerina high on amphetamines. As if that were not enough, Tiant finally releases the ball anywhere from over his head to just above his knee. The motion is so wild that Comedian Don Rickles has incorporated it into his act. "I think I confuse the hitters," Tiant explains. "They can't tell where...
Second Prize: tie Gina Popovic Thonis, "Beasts" and Robin Ward, "Green Sprigs and Curry...
...civil rights poems of the '60s, bloody as a bashed head, have the angry surge of an Abolitionist sermon by his great-great-uncle Henry Ward Beecher...