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In a contemporary review, The New York Times wrote "the thundering noise, confusion and blood-letting of revolution comes too late to offset the pompous and dull make-believe that dominates," concluding that "Stuffy and obvious are the adjectives that best describe "The Pirates of Capri;" [1] while more recently, TV Guide gave the film 2/4 stars, and wrote "Great action scenes and clever ...
According to The New York Times, he was the first person to refer to a baseball park as a "ball yard." [24] After a modification of the baseball rules in 1892 to allow substitutions, Dryden coined the phrase "pinch hit" to describe the practice of bringing a new hitter into the game "as a substitution made in 'a pinch'."
Charles had acquired The Sporting News from its founder, his brother Alfred H. Spink. [2] In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Gerald Holland described Spink's mother as "a great character in her own right". [3] In 1913, Spink was an official scorer for the World Series between the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Giants. [4]
New York in the 1980s: a city of bad clothes, bad haircuts, and bad vibes. With steam hissing out of vents, buildings caked in a century of brown scum, and the subway ridden by the despairing and ...
J. G. Taylor Spink Award (1977) Edgar Herman Munzel (January 14, 1907 – October 4, 2002) was an American sportswriter who covered baseball for the Chicago Herald-Examiner and Chicago Sun-Times from 1929 to 1973.
With 1,838 yards, the seven-year veteran has to average 133.5 yards in those final two games to seize the all-time mark. Barkley has topped that number in six of his 15 games this season.
Review scores; Source ... B [4] Los Angeles Times [5] The New York Times (favorable) [6] (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide [7] ... "Edgar" 3:34: 16. "The Ballad of ...
Regarding the genre-defying nature of the music, New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff wrote, "Despite its inclusion of Bach and Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen", Uncommon Ritual is not a classical album. But neither does it belong to bluegrass, traditional Irish music, jazz or any of the other traditions it lightly borrows from.