Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer of '75 is full of such indignities for the Dodger fan in Boston. While the Red Sox maraude through the American League East, the Dodgers limp through the National League West. Everyone in Boston these days wants to talk about Lynn, Rice, Doyle, Wise, even Yaz. Nobody wants to hear about Messersmith, Sutton, Cey, Garvey, even Marshall. Nobody cares that last year Davey Lopes hit three homes runs in one game against the Cubs, or that latter that week he stole five bases in one game--a game you saw, in person. Or that Dodger left fielder Bill Buckner...
...lost in the movie. Jaws flows along the course of a lot of films adapted from hooks--to shallower waters. Brody is a piece of white bread. Robert Scheider's portrayal of a keeper of the peace is about as inspiring an Andy of Mayberry. There's nothing wise or animal about Robert Shaw's Quint. What you get is the perennial tooth missing, rough and ready sea captain. The only character played to the nines is Richard Dreyfuss's spoiled and reckless kid icthyologist Hooper. While he rarely gasps in awe at the shark's shiny hide. Dreyfuss...
...order to really understand what the author meant by this play, you have to know more than the facts of her life--you have to know the perspective from which she wrote it. This was the perspective of the wise adolescent who had begun to see the black humor in the greed and the cheating and the family quarreling at the Sunday dinner table...
...small airplane with Amelia Earhart at the controls, a comment that, for all its validity, led two players to bodily attack Ryan the next time he dared show his face in the locker room. They were fined. Other pitchers include Rogelio Moret, tall, skinny, last and independable; and Rick Wise, a fastball pitcher with a good strikeout record and a heart-breaking no-hitter until two outs in the ninth when big, very big George Scott, the former Red Sox first baseman who was traded despite his great value, stepped up to the plate, leered above his animal-tooth lovebeads...
...certain episodes in Mexico and the Philippines, until World War I Americans widely agreed with the view that their country should lead by good example-or as Hayne Davis, a writer on international affairs, put it in the Independent hi 1903, "simply to let her light so shine, by wise conduct of her own home affairs, that other nations may see her good works and adopt the political principle which has been her source of power." This passive, if naively arrogant belief was transformed into a crusading spirit by Woodrow Wilson's call that Americans must fight to make...