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...river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
Back when Kuhn began his watch, someone quizzed him: "Quick, name two catchers on the St. Louis Browns in the early '40s." Without a blink, Kuhn replied, "Swift and Mancuso." But Ueberroth required a moment to think before mentioning Cincinnati Pitcher Ewell Blackwell among his favorite old players...
...remarkable news year for Americans. Presidential politics will dominate the scene. The long countdown to the November elections is already well begun as the race to become Ronald Reagan's Democratic challenger fills columns of print and hours on the air waves. The summertime conventions seem only a blink away. But July will bring another memorable event: the XXIII Olympiad, the largest Olympic Games ever organized and the first Summer Games held in the U.S. in 52 years. And almost as a prelude comes the first spectacular, the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. There the U.S. is thrusting into...
...dinner, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi told the press, "If I may use metaphorical language, we failed to elect a new Pope, and there is black smoke." With the health of the Community hanging in the balance, the question now is: Who, in the next round of negotiations, will blink first-if anyone blinks...
...halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Dmitri Kudriavtsev said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200 trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt, man-eating dogs...