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...play, the slick-quick coordination of a relay from the outfield-the sport remains a game of individual skills. Lopes produced the first of a string of great individual performances in this 75th World Series. He crashed two home runs into the bleachers in left center, the last a screamer that was still on the rise when it rifled into the stands ten rows behind the 385-ft. marker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Paths to Glory | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Pryor's words, he "went crazy." With a packed audience in front of him, he walked off the stage. What had happened was that he realized he was not Cosby, the smooth, controlled comic of the cerebrum. He was, if anyone, Lenny Bruce, the angry, violent screamer from the acid gut. Pryor changed his act, bringing it back in spirit to Peoria's black ghetto and the mean streets all over the U.S. He started to talk in the argot of the pool shark and the hustler, a language so obscene that it is no longer obscene, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...frustrated song-and-dance man just screaming to get out," quipped Actor Rock Hudson before his arrival in London for the stage musical I Do! I Do! Hudson, who opened last week with Singer-Dancer Juliet Prowse in the two-character marital spoof, should have kept the screamer locked within. The London Sun found Rock's singing so far off-key as to make "timid dogs sit on their haunches and howl at the moon." As for his hoofing ability, the paper's critic was relieved to find that Prowse "is fast enough on her feet to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...impudence, a chant of "get but of the line." Sam almost acquiesces, but someone in the line has an attack of "waitline sickness" and starts screaming an immediate threat to the crowd, for the sickness is contagious. Some cool head replaces the chant with a lullaby, gradually calming the screamer. And when it is quiet, the silence is too tense for anyone to resume hostilities against...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Reading Between the Lines | 3/15/1975 | See Source »

...Screamer" and when does he work his magic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Station Follies: The 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden' Quiz | 3/20/1974 | See Source »

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