Word: weaverization
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...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...
...steamer trunk, Shogun. What are the stats on a samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found a peculiar substitute for baseball: opera, an art form that the sport somewhat resembles-at least if Billy Martin or Earl Weaver is involved. "My wife," says Murphy, "thinks this strike will spawn a cultural revolution...
Buddy (Timothy Shelton), one of the two Talley sons, has been granted a 72-hour leave from the Italian campaign to be with his apparently dying grandfather, the senile patriarch of the clan (Fritz Weaver). Buddy's wife Olive (Patricia Wettig) and his mother (Helen Stenborg) are busy preparing Christmas dinner-to make up for the one Buddy missed in December; and his Aunt Charlotte (Elizabeth Sturges) is sitting by herself, uttering bitter and angry comments about everyone and everything, as usual...
...WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino Translated by William Weaver Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 260 pages...
...m.p.h. A good manager can impart confidence in myriad ways: leaving a pitcher in the game to work his way out of trouble, letting a batter swing away on a 3-0 count, praising on the bench, and doing the dressing down in private. Says Baltimore's Earl Weaver, the winningest manager in baseball today: "If a person can get to the subconscious, then he is going to get a lot more adrenalin flowing or a lot more out of the human body than it might be capable of. I don't know if it is through actions...