Word: weaverization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout Umpire Luciano himself is the only recurrent character, though his pet peeve. Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver comes close. They didn't get along on the field where relations deteriorated to the point that the league gave Luciano a short vacation whenever his crew visited Baltimore. But he can't help bringing up Weaver again and again, almost offering him symbolically as the exception that proves the rule that everybody in the league likes him. Of all the ejections he handed out over 11 years. Luciano has to be proudest of the one he give. Weaver during the warm...
...befits a variety show, A Prairie Home Companion has a little bit of everything, or everything that interests Keillor. There is a lot of music: bluegrass, folk, opera, jazz, blues, and visitors like Bill Staines, a yodeler, or Dr. Tom Weaver, who taps out the William Tell overture on his teeth. There are also letters from listeners and mock commercials. (The main "sponsor," Powdermilk Biscuits, promises to give shy people "the power to get up and do what needs to be done.") But the backbone of the program is Keillor's gravelly narration of the goings-on in Lake...
...Crystallization of Amorphous Systems and Formation and Properties of Amosphous Metallic Alloys David Turnbull $336,897 10/1/76-9/30/81 Division of Applied Sciences Biological Studies on Marine Boring and Fouling Mollusks R. D. Turner $218,210 10/1/75-12/30/81 MCZ A Componential Approach to Locating and Correcting Reading Disabilities of Young Adults Phyllis Weaver, Ann Kera $191,703 7/1/79-6/30/82 Arts and Sciences Life-History Studies on Fouling Bryozoans and Ascidians Robert Woollacott $198,410 10/1/77-9/30/81 MCZ Model Investigations of Lithosperic Propagation Tai Tsun Wu $135,750 4/1/79-10/31/81 Division of Applied Sciences
...January in Los Gatos, Calif., to market Filewriter, a program priced at $9.95 that can alphabetize lists on Apple computers. Despite three classified ads in computer magazine, no products have yet been sold. But that has not discouraged the company's founders: Steve Grimm, age 12, and Nikolai Weaver age 11. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...Deer Hunter, Cazale was fighting for the strength to say his lines. Streep had contracted to film Holocaust in Austria, where, as Cazale was dying in the U.S., she played a woman whose husband was imprisoned in a concentration camp. It was a grim experience, but, says Actor Fritz Weaver, who worked with her, "there was not one moment of self-pity. She has tremendous professional devotion." Back in the U.S., she dropped her career to stay with Cazale for the months that remained until he died, in March...