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...kids while his wife works and keeps the house in order, but actually takes joy in his tasks. Pride. Fulfillment. The book was more than a smash. It was a true literary phenomenon, and there are surely very few admirers of Garp who think, as the boys in the barroom still say, that he got his balls busted...
Because he writes for The New Yorker--a weekly magazine with a most selective and elite readership--Angell's style is more poetic, more intellectual. In "barroom Comparative Literature seminars," the professors of baseball spend countless hours discussing their relics. The hard-fought 1980s Astros-Phillies championship series included four extra innings games which were "Lovre pieces" highlighted by the seesaw Game Four--"baseball of the High Baroque, surely." A leading object de studie is Ron Guidry, who "is not a thrower...his every pitch, including the slider, contributes to an eloquent major theme built around the keynote, which...
...York Herald Tribune used to wonder how much of his Runyonesque column was fiction. The question was settled with the suggestion that Jimmy did not write fiction because he had enough trouble making up the truth. That, in part, was how the New Journalism was born. From barroom, cloakroom and police station, Breslin cut slices of life in which big guys squeezed little guys; people who read too many books didn't know what they were talking about; and politicians were vain, greedy and corrupt-except Bobby Kennedy, who got shot as Breslin watched. Nobody wrote a better eyewitness...
...match-up that has all the makings of a barroom brawl. On the right of the room, Charlie Daniels, roof-raising country rocker, the good ole fiddler who a couple of seasons ago sang about the devil going down to Georgia and about solid American spunk: "This lady may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell/ And if the Russians don't believe it, they can all go straight to hell...
...famous Milwaukee brewers have fallen on hard times. Schlitz no longer makes beer there. Takeover battles simmer among the suds, and mutinous stockholders threaten to dislodge entire boards of directors in nasty brawls not far above the barroom level. The brewers are in a battle for third place in the U.S. beer business, behind leader Anheuser-Busch and second-place Miller. Analysts believe that third largest is big enough to compete with the industry's leaders, but anything much smaller than that level cannot muster the advertising megabucks to fight off relative obscurity and low sales...