Word: willard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lemke again, this time scoring on a Jerry Willard sacrifice fly to even the series at two. Raspy old fart that Jack Buck is, I love him to death for this CBS play-by-play call: "[Crack] That's gonna be a winner for Atlanta! The runner tags at third...here's the throw from Mack. Here's Lemke!...He is ou..SAFE, SAFE, SAFE!" (Poor old Jack, muffing a huge call and yet making it sound strangely wonderful, like the Braves' season itself...
Asked why the last drive the Leopards mounted consumed so much time and in the process essentially sealed the win for the Crimson, Russo replied more like Willard Scott than Lou Holtz...
...young, attractive actor-singers give heartfelt performances nonetheless, never condescending to the characters but finding dignity in their primal passions. In particular, Willard White and Cynthia Haymon invest the title roles with wrenching believability. In Nunn's conception, the crippled beggar Porgy is less pathetic and helpless than in most productions, hobbling on crutches instead of pushing himself on a cart. At the end he flings away his crutches and, in search of his missing Bess, lurches off painfully, heroically into a blaze of backlighting. It's a dazzling final image, but one that also points up the drawback...
David Ardell and Jed Willard are wellmatched as the equally psychotic partners in crime, Jonathan Brewster and Dr. Einstein. Justin Levitt plays the native Mr. Gibbs and the overly enthusiastic Officer O'Hara with winning relish...
...incensed," said Willard. "We've beenburning shuttles in effigy...