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Basketball Dream. Though Ryan still suffers from control woes-he led the majors in walks for the past three seasons-he is now the compleat pitcher. By combining powerful leg thrust off the rubber with whip action in his arm, the 6-ft. 2-in., 198 lb. pitcher fires a fastball that, if anything, is fastest at the end of a game. When he doesn't want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that...
Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake...
...Compleat Angler, published in 1653, remains as fresh today as it was in Oliver Cromwell's time. Through Walton, millions of readers have learned to put as much lead "as will sink the bait to the bottom and keep it still in motion, and not more," and that "when the wind is south, it blows your bait into a fish's mouth." Through Walton's American disciple, Washington Irving, millions more have been apprised of the fact that "there is certainly something in angling ... that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, and a pure serenity...
Loggins and Messina. Everything Jimmy Messina touches turns to gold. They say he doesn't like to tour, so he dropped out of Springfield while it was collapsing around him. To produce, they said. He shows up with Richie Furay's Poco, and that band promptly becomes the compleat incarnation of country rock. At which point Messina tires of touring, leaves Poco. To produce, they said. He falls in with a journeyman L.A. songwriter named Kenny Loggins, whose credits include "House at Pooh Corner," and the ability to sound like a cracker Elton John. Hired only to produce Loggins' first...
...fool as captivatingly human as Sganarelle. John McMartin plays this role to droll perfection, both physically and psychologically. His face and his body operate on alternating currents as he is by turns appalled, amazed and fascinated by Don Juan's behavior. As the Don, Paul Hecht is the compleat cynic and as seductive as the hell he courts...