Word: feeney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then I remembered Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney of Laverne & Shirley fame. Many critics saw a direct connection between the antics of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams and those of Lucy and Ethel on I Love Lucy. The opening credits of Laverne & Shirley, with the two title characters capping beer bottles on an assembly line, are reminiscent of the famous scene of Lucy and Ethel wrapping chocolates in assembly-line fashion in one of I Love Lucy's most enduring episodes. And after all, what are Lenny and Squiggy but an exaggerated Ricky and Fred...
...intellectually stimulating conference call in the morning with Nelson Doubleday, August Busch and Chub Feeney, but after lunch I felt like I was slowly twisting in the seventh circle of hell," said the Renaissance man and medieval scholar. "Things really get slow around here in November. You know, there are no games being played this time of year. I think I'm going to go sign a few baseballs...
...stuff of daily life. There are threats and occasionally even executions. It sounds like Al Capone's Chicago or Mafia-dominated Sicily in the days of gangland wars. But instead, all those evils are flourishing in today's Northern Ireland in neighborhoods controlled by extremists. Says Brian Feeney, a Belfast city councilor: "This is real godfather stuff. Everybody pays. If you don't, they threaten to harm your family or workers...
...president of Yale University, A. Bartlett ("Hit them where they aren't") Giamatti, to jump to the National League. As the commissioner of baseball is a reformed travel agent, and the president of the American League is a retired cardiologist, the choice of an English teacher to replace Chub Feeney made a surprising kind of sense, though Chub has never hurried away from a press conference to deliver a lecture on Machiavelli...
...seems to me like a very fine choice," said Charles S. ("Chub") Feeney, whom Giamatti will succeed in the fall. "He's highly intelligent and loves baseball," said Feeney, a Dartmouth alumnus who as General Manager of the New York Giants helped orchestrate the team's move to San Fransisco...