Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pitching is something else. Neither club has a 20-game winner. Lefthander Jerry Reuss is the best of the Pirates, and Don Gullett can go the distance for the Reds. But he probably won't. Cincinnati Manager Sparky Anderson is so quick to yank starters that he is called "Captain Hook...
...complex contraption with a cash register attached), and this new non-commercial version of the trials of Popeye Doyle in search of Frog One--a major supplier of New York's heroin--is therefore a great deal more interesting. Doyle was originally the kind of cop that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their ear if he wanted to call headquarters. And while we were supposed to like him, his temper--the man pounding furiously on the expressionless subway door with his prey smug inside, and his brash lack of cool was supposed...
...hitters, Angel outfielders let fly balls drop in for base hits, and the Angel catcher stuffs a half-inch-thick pad of foam rubber into his glove. The reason: Ryan throws so hard he rewrites the basic customs of the game. Batters inch back because they are scared, managers yank top hitters because they can't connect on high fastballs, Ryan's own outfielders are lulled to sleep by the preponderance of infield outs his pitches produce, and his catcher will do anything to keep his hand from turning to raw meat...
...describe irregular or misshapen pearls. Explains Kipnis: "In Baroque music of Bach, Handel and Rameau, the pearls are the musical forms-such as the sonata, the concerto grosso or the da capo aria. Trills, other ornaments, colorful dissonance, wildly uneven rhythms-all these are devices that create tremendous tension, yank the listener back and forth and leave him in anything but absolute comfort...
...recent French film Going Places (TIME, June 10). Both movies share the same craving for shock value, the same dim idea that freedom and aggressive irresponsibility are the same. Going Places, however, remained anxiously airy throughout. In Turkish Delight, Director Paul Verhoeven and Writer Gerard Soeteman try to yank the rug right out from under the middle of the film, suddenly portraying everything that had seemed gay as a fierce and desperate stall against fate...