Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hometown Cincinnatian too enthusiastic ever to walk to first base, Rose arrived in the major leagues as a flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...
Valasek also felt that the team was "flat-footed" on defense. "We have to be quicker and punchier on our feet," the sophomore hitter said...
...cartoonist who craves Calvin and Hobbes but knows that all strips must one day fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...light of all these lives is Cyril's live-in girlfriend Shirley (Ruth Sheen), buck-toothed and, in her self-effacing way, greathearted. Quietly, she has turned their dark, cramped flat into a haven for waifs and strays (including, finally, Mrs. Bender). Quietly too she tends her struggling rooftop garden and keeps trying to talk Cyril into having a child. What can you do these days but make a warm place to nurture people -- and some small hopes for a less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies...
...gesture fell flat. Under the pact, the pilots, who have given up $164.5 million in wages since 1986, were asked for an additional $64 million a year in concessions. The pilots rejected the contract and threw their support to the I.A.M. members, asserting that the airline's fleet could not be safely maintained during a mechanics' walkout. Said John Bavis, head of Eastern's pilots' union: "What's Lorenzo going to do with 225 airplanes? Take them down to the local Jiffy Lube...