Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Jeff Bloom should have known better. The Tufts lefthander was silly enough to let the Harvard baseball team get two hits off him in yesterday's opener...
...soon as the home run was there, I felt the game was over," said senior Jeff Musselman, whose three-hitter wilted Bloom's Jumbos. "I knew I wasn't giving up a run," added Musselman (4-1), who struck out nine while walking none...
When James Joyce wanted to symbolize exile, he did it with a Jew, Leopold Bloom of Ulysses. American Jewish writers did not hesitate to import this conceit, making the Jew-as-outsider one of the durable cliches in the national literature. But the facts of life were quite different from the fiction of alienation. By the end of World War II, the sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar...
...late addition in the acne rash of teen stories, The Sure Thing's script (by Steven L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts) must qualify as pretty "intellectual and stuff." Alison might fret about maintaining her grade- point average, and Gib may actually fall for her because "she happens to be an excellent judge of quality shirtwear." Welcome to the decade of lowered expectations, which Rob Reiner's meandering direction fully satisfies. The Sure Thing aims not to blaze trails but to avoid the gross failings of its predecessors. All right, then. In teenpix a shrug is better than a shudder...
...happens every winter. When the winds howl and the snow drifts, TV screens across the U.S. bloom with images of swaying palms, emerald waters and undulating swimsuits. The islands beckon; come to the Caribbean. Not everyone has the time or money to heed the call, but stay-at-homes this year may console themselves with this collection of nine stories. In his first book, Author Bob Shacochis not only offers some beguiling tropical tours, he also shows how living in Eden can be considerably harder than jetting into...