Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Britain operates with a professionally trained management team of Elizabeth, Philip, Charles & Co., we muddle on with cattle ranchers, third-rate lawyers and peanut farmers with no leadership background. You don't suppose they'd lend us Charles...
Through the long, cold fall and winter, Ed drove the New Jersey highways, littering them, on Soviet instructions, with orange juice, milk and peanut crunch containers into which he had crammed documents for Jim. In return, as promised, the money flowed freely. All the while the FBI screened his giveaway secrets -and kept the cash he received...
...School will also be the scene of some excitement tomorrow night when Bowie Kuhn, commissioner and imperial majesty of baseball, will be the guest of the Law School Forum. Peanut and crackerjack aficionados will want to be in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall well before the first pitch is thrown at 8 p.m. to ensure they get box seats...
Touches of Class: The color and upkeep of the Penn baseball diamond. The peanut vendor at the doubleheader. NBC television cameras interviewing Mike Wilhite before the Columbia Game. The "Star Spangled Banner" at Baker Field. The "Welcome Harvard Baseball" sign at the Sheraton Airport Inn in Philadelphia. Poker and sandwiches in a hotel room. Curfew...
...where we missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first intrudes on them the house madame calls him an "invert"--he begins to just hang around, looking less like a sinister voyeur than a dazed peanut vendor at a ballpark. The scene where he finally admits his love for Violet lacks both preparation and emotion: I'm all yours, Violet," he says--but Carradine doesn't seem to be all there. Occasionally he is testy and impetuous, presumably because all artists should be temperamental. But his fits express less...