Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have but two qualms preventing me from rushing out this minute to purchase one: 1) its degree of accuracy seems ill-fated to be minimal; 2) its "tic-tic-tic" would probably sound closer to "Dick-talk, Dick-talk, Dick-talk...
...sluggers of both leagues could manage was nine singles and twelve strikeouts. The first extra-base hit did not come until the eighth inning, when the Orioles' Brooks Robinson tripled and the American Leaguers took a 4-to-1 lead. The National Leaguers, powered by the Giants' Dick Dietz and Willie McCovey, finally woke up in the ninth to tie the score and send the game into extra innings. The spectators who remained, including Richard Nixon, were rewarded with a rare slam-bang finish...
...Pirates' Roberto Clemente said: "To hell with the All-Star Game. I can use the rest." Roberto, who pleaded a "pain in the neck," finally agreed to play-but only after National League President Charles ("Chub") Feeney threatened to crack down on cop-outs. Al Kaline and Dick McAuliffe of the Detroit Tigers had themselves scratched from the A.L. roster because of disabling injuries. Two days before the All-Star encounter, though, both men recovered long enough to play against the Baltimore Orioles...
...court-martial scene is, in fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...
...minor members of the Dudgeon family (notably James Cromwell as Dick's nasal and stupid brother Christy), the officer and soldiers, and the Indians all lend welcome color to the production. And where Shaw has called for the offstage sound of the Dead March from Handel's Saul, Ritchard has brought a real costumed band of piccolos, brass and drums right on stage. And he has appended a musical epilogue to Shaw's wildly cheering townspeople. After a performance of "Yankee Doodle," a group launches into William Billings' patriotic hymn "Chester"-a most fitting choice, for Billings was a Bostonian...