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...roundhouse curve that left the astonished batter gaping at a called third strike. Another time, when Bench felt a pitcher was not putting enough steam on the ball, he shocked everyone in the park by arrogantly catching a listless pitch with his bare hand. Thus chastened, the pitcher bore down hard...
Every store and house bore the clear mark of the high water, a chocolate streak ranging from 6 to 12 feet up the side of the building. The ground floors of most homes and businesses were completely devastated. With nearly all store windows broken out, waterlogged and mud-crusted merchandise furniture and food lay rotting in the summer...
Boudu Saved from Drowning, A charming comedy from 1935 about a shaggy-dog man who disrupts the life of inert bourgeoisie is billed with a Renoir bore and a Renoir dud, Picnic on the Grass and A Day in the Country. BRATTLE THEATER. Boudu: 6, 9:35 Picnic...
...rather academic question: Who casts a deciding vote? The answer comes with a dash of LSD and a mysterious death by defenestration. But it is delivered in a style that is not so much prose as prosaic. At the end, Snow's hero decides to get married and bore from within society. With typical felicity, he concludes: "Some feelings were simpler, compulsorily simpler, than until inside them one would ever think." Heavy...
...Harvard administration. A memo by presidential assistant Steve Father published in the March 10 Gazette and supposedly representing his advice to Bok on the subject, was obviously prepared for public consumption. Its consideration of the pros and cons of divestiture, while highly informative concerning Gulf and Angola, bore no relationship to what were obviously the administration's main concerns--not just such cynical but nevertheless real questions as "Will this get those students off our backs?" but even others, more appropriate for official published reports, such as "How will this affect our total investment policy?" or "How will this affect...