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TRAVELING LIGHT by Bill Barich Viking; 226 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyager | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...case of Bill Barich, a surrogate voyager justly praised for his first book, Laughing in the Hills, the trip is likely to be no farther than is necessary to get to the nearest horse track or trout stream. It is true that in one instance in this collection of ten essays, the nearest track is in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, England, and in another it is in Florence, Italy. Nevertheless, the reader still capable of shame must feel guilty of a stunning level of shiftlessness: he is letting another man win his bets for him (Barich admits to occasional losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyager | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Barich embellishes the moment ("It was like somebody weeping in a darkened the ater long after the movie's ended"), and the effect is corny, but nice, like a good fishing trip. His race-track humor slides in and out of straight-faced paragraphs so deftly you hardly realize you've been stung. The author reports of an unhurried race horse, for instance, that "Sterling Drive broke from the rail, with infinite care, and headed directly for the parking lot, going so wide on the first turn that several fans groaned." The deftness and dryness here, an infinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyager | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Saves--Bu Barich 15 Daskalakes 4:H Blair 34 Attendence 2350./ At Bright Center BU 1 1 1--3 Harvard...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen Power Past B.U., 10-3 | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

Goalie--Bob Barich, Boston University...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fusco the Irishman and Other Stars | 2/12/1982 | See Source »

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