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...does not seem to feel the marvelous rightness when two players extend each other beyond the edge of what is possible. He does not report the gritty $ stretches when character rules the game's flow and the flow ruthlessly illuminates character. Bud Collins gave us such narration in his wonderfully lighthearted 1989 memoir, My Life with the Pros, and John McPhee wrote the classic tennis portraits (of Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe) in Levels of the Game. Feinstein had the opportunity to write a book that would stand with these, but he is flat where he should be funny...
...with you in your suitcase," pleads a high school student, only half in jest. After months of leniency, malcontents are again being hauled off to jails or rounded up for warnings. Local block groups, with 4 million members, have formed "rapid-reaction brigades" to nip any protests in the bud...
...beer because it "Tastes great!" or is "Less filling!" The ad campaign created a vast demand for low-calorie brews at a time when Miller Lite was virtually the only supply -- in 1975 it constituted 96% of light-beer sales. However, the 1980s produced challenges from Coors Light and Bud Light, which drained Miller's share...
...assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of the "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was intended to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped in the bud by the pathetic pranksters on Mount Auburn...
...assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of their "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was inteded to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped in the bud by the pathetic pranksters on Mount Auburn...