If you want to find out what a player did in his last at-bat, you ask for the datum of that last at-bat (granted, in different words). A baseball slugger is a player who gets a lot of extra-base hits (especially homers), and you can only do that during an at-bat. I'm another one who doesn't understand the rant about the clue for ATBAT. (And any grid with POO in it is ok by me.) I'm with Rex – those big corners were an exciting challenge. I get a real kick out of words that sound like letter combinations. You have to take huge bites to understand the miracle of the eating experience. Its combination of great tooth action and stunning flavor makes me want to weep. If there's one thing that makes me want to write poetry, it's the world's most perfect food: the Rice Krispy Treat. I was looking at some famous ODEs this weekend, thinking about trying my hand at writing one. I just looked at some stats for A Rod, Aaron, and Bonds the "AB" column is right at the beginning of the charts I saw. I kept having Emile Zola knocking at the door. The themer I didn't know was EMILIANO ZAPATA, but it fell easily with the crosses. Once I started paying attention, I sorted that out and put EBOLA ZAIRE right in. The only problem was I had "Olaf" before OLAV, so I distractedly put in for the Eden dweller an "eft," thinking I needed to brush up on my Bible stories. "Were there lots of guys named ALLEN in that movie?" I asked myself for approx. for one brief, dizzying moment I sincerely thought 7D: Many a "Guardian of the Galaxy" character could be ALLEN. Also, why is "Baseball" in that clue at all? If you'd had, who's going to go "Do they mean hockey?" It also subjects me to "datum," which I just don't like on aesthetic grounds. This clue drains "slugger" of all meaning. You can stand there and never move the bat off your shoulder and get an AT-BAT. But an AT-BAT has absolutely nothing to do with slugging. A "slugger" connotes a batter who hits for power. "Slugger" has zero zero zero to do with the "datum" (ugh, that word) that is the AT-BAT. The more I look at the NE corner, the more I love it. I did not there were strains (or, rather, I did not know there were strains with names that I was supposed to know). Those plurals are painful, but I think that together they could make magic. If I could design a picture to go with this write-up, it would be a passel of ELSAS eating their NANS.
I really wanted to rate this puzzle "Easy" or "Easy-Medium" (for I hope obvious reasons), but with those corners and those proper nouns, this is likely to play Medium, possibly even Medium-Tough. The puzzle is at the very least interesting looking, and those corners were an exciting challenge to get through in normal Tuesday time (I managed to come in just under normal, actually). *But* that would've created perhaps an untenable level of theme density. EDWARD would've sat nicely in the middle of the grid too, and the whole jury-rigged "informally" contrivance could've been ditched. I mean, how else do you explain the absurdity that is ED ZWICK. Why not give some of those white squares to the middle of the grid and take a little pressure off the corners? I can answer my own question, actually-the themers likely presented a severe challenge, given the Z-abundance and the general theme density. The NE one holds up better than the SW one ( ANA NANS ERES PSST make that corner mildly creaky). Weirdly, they might be my favorite thing about the puzzle. Giant themeless-sized corners in an otherwise choppy, short-word-laden grid. Normally I like big, wide-open corners, but these are almost comical. Despite sharing a surname and being in the same profession, Edward is unrelated to fellow director Joel Zwick. He was one of the recipients of the Academy Award for Best Picture for Shakespeare in Love he was also nominated in the same category for Traffic.
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This company has produced such notable films as Traffic and Shakespeare in Love and the TV shows thirtysomething, Relativity, Once and Again, and My So-Called Life. Along with Marshall Herskovitz, Zwick runs a film production company called The Bedford Falls Company (inspired by the name of the town featured in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life). His films include Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), and Defiance (2008). Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker and Academy Award winning film producer.
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