Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Weaver Koenigswinter, West Germany...
...pretentious. As ill chance has it, the characters are immured in a New Mexico mission house on a false atomic-emergency alert. There is a rich widow (Tanya Berezin) who has purchased a potential Wimbledon champ (Brian Tarantina) for off-court recreation. There is an Ivy League professor (Fritz Weaver), broken in mind, health and will, who has reached the conclusion that teaching is a fraud. His much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably actressy. And then there is Barnard Hughes, a man who enhances the scope and embellishes the vocabulary of acting every...
...Baltimore, where the Orioles were able to win three straight games but not four from the Milwaukee Brewers, retiring Manager Earl Weaver did more than just pop back out of the dugout afterward; he led Memorial Stadium in cheers. Curiously, Baltimore has adopted for a municipal symbol and mascot a cab-driving, beer-belching mountain man who can roughly spell out the letters O-r-i-o-l-e-s by flailing his limbs. When the score is forgotten, the memory will be of Weaver taking over for Wild Bill Hagy and acting out how everyone felt. As he closed...
...course, there were also the temper tantrums at the poor, misbeggoten umpire who happened to cross Weaver. It didn't matter whether the plucky Bird was right or wrong on a call; he would argue just for the sake of arguing. All to relieve the pressure that often weighed heavily on his players. A good, fullblown outburst was usually a sure signal of an impending Oriole streak...
...finally, there was the wit that put it all in perspective. Weaver had an uncanny ability to uncork a brutal one-liner that could knock baseball a little bit down from its high horse. "The only guy that didn't make a mistake," he once remarked to some second-guessers, "they crucified." His ability to laugh at himself and his sport was almost unrivalled in the self-important athletic world...