The manager of these title teams was Larry Dierker, who had previously been a broadcaster and pitcher for the Astros.

Indeed, the title " Left Behind " echoes the refrain of Thiefs early-Christian-rock theme song by Larry Norman.

" Known Space " ( also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series ) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10, 000 stars, including Human Space ( 40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth ), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations.

The one silver lining was Tony Gwynn's eighth and final National League batting title, won in the final days of the season after a down-to-the wire duel with the Colorado Rockies ' Larry Walker.

In 2011, he directed and starred opposite Julia Roberts in the title role in the romantic comedy Larry Crowne.

For " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails ", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called " Say, Young Man of Manattan ," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.

" Her last performance was the title role in Larry Cohen's Wicked Stepmother ( 1989 ).

A film, The People vs. Larry Flynt ( 1996 ), was based on his life which features Woody Harrelson in the title role.

Larry Brown coached the Pistons to the 2004 NBA Finals | 2004 NBA title and the Eastern Conference championship 2005 NBA Finals | the following season.

Norton then defended the WBC title against another Don King fighter, Larry Holmes, who won the belt.

Then director Carl Reiner asked him to play the title role in Larry Gelbart's comedy, Oh, God !, which was so successful it spawned two sequels.

In 2013, Jimmy will be portraying the title role of Hedwig in the musical " Hedwig & The Angry Inch " for Covey Theatre and will be starring in the one-man play " The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me " for Rarely Done Productions.

In 1978 on the undercard of the Larry Holmes / Ken Norton title fight Ocasio scored a major upset when he outpointed the highly regarded Jimmy Young, who'd outpointed George Foreman only a while back.

This earned him his only world heavyweight title shot, against Larry Holmes in 1979.

When Columbia was preparing a screen biography of Al Jolson, many big-name stars were considered for the title role, including James Cagney and Danny Thomas ( both of whom turned it down ), but resident contractee Larry Parks was reportedly the first actor to be interviewed.

In his first defense of the WBC title on June 9, 1978, Norton and new # 1 contender Larry Holmes met in a classic fight.

After beating Jose Vallejo by a knockout in seven in San Juan to start 1980, he traveled to Bloomington, Minnesota, to challenge Saoul Mamby for Mamby's WBC world Jr. Welterweight title, in the major supporting event of the Larry Holmes-Scott Le Doux world Heavyweight championship bout's undercard.

* September 28 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Larry Holmes retains his World Heavyweight title with an 11th round TKO of Earnie Shavers.

In January 1988, he came back to fight Bryan Grant on the undercard of Mike Tyson's title defence against Larry Holmes.

In 1989, the Los Angeles Times revived the strip under the title Walt Kelly's Pogo, written at first by Larry Doyle and Neal Sternecky, then by Sternecky alone.

The only other time that Ali would challenge for the title and lose was in the Larry Holmes fight, when 38-year-old Ali's corner threw in the towel after the 10th round.

* April 11 – Larry Holmes defeats Trevor Berbick by a unanimous decision to retain the WBC heavyweight title.

Schneider also had an uncredited cameo as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister in the 2007 Sandler-Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and played a Palestinian cab driver who serves as the title character's nemesis in the 2008 Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Shavers then fought for the title against skilled champion Larry Holmes at Caesars Palace in Pardise on September 29, 1979, exactly two years after his defeat by Ali.

Niven's Laws is also the title of a 1984 collection of Niven's short stories.

* A reference to the title can be found at the end of Larry Niven's 1965 short story " Becalmed in Hell ," in which the character Eric, who lives as a brain and spinal cord on life-support, and works as the directly connected controller of a NASA exploratory vessel, signs a telegram, " Donovan's Brain.

Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

Their debut album, Holy Diver, included the hit singles " Rainbow in the Dark " and the title track, " Holy Diver ".

While the title of it and Roger Dean's sleeve both suggested that the band was romantically working medieval myth into their songs-and surely songs like " Rainbow Demon " and " The Wizard " ( co-written by Mark Clarke, during his short stay ) did have thematical links with fantasy world-more straightforward, hard-rocking approach was also obvious.

This song served as the title track to his debut album, Here in the Real World, which also included two more top five hits (" Wanted " and " Chasin ' That Neon Rainbow ") and his first number one, " I'd Love You All Over Again ".

The Amiga version of Rainbow Islands was the first game to make # 1 on Amiga Power < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual All Time Top 100 list, and held the spot for years until losing to Sensible Soccer, which retained the title for the rest of the magazine's run.

While promoting their new title song " A ", Rainbow pulled up their shirts as though about to take them off and showed their belly buttons.

Lombardo's final production at Jones Beach was the 1977 staging of Finian's Rainbow, with Christopher Hewett in the title role.

New York artist Zak Smith created a series of 760 drawings entitled, " One Picture for Every Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow " ( also known by the title " Pictures of What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow ").

The idea for the title comes from the United States Color-coded War Plans, specifically the Rainbow Plans of the 1930s, where Rainbow Five is the last known plan.

The city is situated on what is promoted as the " Rainbow Coast " which is an appropriate title given the significant frequency of days with both sun and drizzle or showers.

Both The Tonight Show and the Late Show with David Letterman staffs heavily pursued Nyro for a TV appearance during this period, yet she turned them down as well, citing her discomfort with appearing on television ( she made only a handful of early TV appearances and one fleeting moment on VH-1 performing the title song from “ Broken Rainbow ” on Earth Day in 1990 ).

In February 2010, THQ announced that Juice Games and Rainbow Studios would be part of a reshuffle, and would now bear the title THQ Digital Warrington and THQ Digital Phoenix respectively.

In the UK the song was released as a single under the title " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ".

TwinBee ( which was released in America under the changed title Stinger ); the two Super NES installments, Pop ' n TwinBee and Pop ' n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures, in Europe and TwinBee Da !!

The book Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins takes its title from the above-quoted passage: it is an explicit attempt to demonstrate that this view of " cold philosophy " is incorrect and that science reveals, rather than destroys, the true beauty of the natural world.

Each month had a title, e. g. " The Rainbow Issue ", " The First Issue ".

The native name for the island is Minjerribah but in 1827 Captain Henry John Rous, who had the title of Viscount Dunwich, commander of HMS Rainbow the first British ship of war to enter Moreton Bay, named the island after his father the Earl of Stradbroke, the town after his title, the entrance channel after himself and even gave his boat a guernsey with the naming of Rainbow Beach.

It is also known in America as the Rainbow Finch, Gould's Finch, or the Lady Gouldian Finch ( although Mrs. Gould did not hold the title Lady ).