Word: buffs
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...generation to which Lardner is largely a distant figure of the 1920s (he died in 1933), familiar chiefly through textbooks and a few anthologies, it does not do full justice to the lasting appeal of the great American humorist. Nor is it likely to satisfy the Lardner buff (there are still a great many), who likes to sample his Lardneriana over the wide range offered by a box of Mother's Day chocolates. When Lardner was good, he was very, very good; when he was bad, he could be awful. This collection, by concentrating on Lardner rarities, too often...
Bunions & Scars. At a house party in Fiedler's masterpiece of fictional illness, Nude Croquet, the middle-aged guests decide to shuck their clothes and play croquet in the buff. In the peep show that follows, the readers see "bulges and creases and broken veins, bunions and scars and grizzled hair . . . Leonard, vaguely hermaphroditic, pudgy and white; Eva, her cross falling just where her pancake makeup gave way to the slightly pimpled pallor of her skin; Achsa, tallow-yellow and without breasts; Beatie, marked with the red griddle of her corseting and verging on shapelessness; Marvin, sallow and unmuscled...
...atmosphere exhilarating, and concluded that Seattleites "love the idea of the fair, but hate the thought of strangers' finding what a nice neck of the woods they live in. They hope people won't come out and take them over." Hall is a world's fair buff who has never seen one before. He has been longing to ever since his parents in Jackson, Miss., would not let him hitchhike to the New York World's Fair in 1939. He has collected a stack of material-postcards, folders and samples-on world's fairs dating...
...historian outshouts the reporter in USA* 1, the explanation lies in the person of the magazine's founder: British-born Rodney C. Campbell. 37, a confirmed history buff. Campbell's sense of history, maturing during seven years as a TIME writer, prompted him three years ago to start a magazine of his own. He rounded up $1,000,000 worth of support, gathered a staff from TIME (three reporter-writers) and the New York daily press (the Times, Herald Tribune, Post and Wall Street Journal...
Paret lay limp and still, blood running from his eyes and nose. The cameras zeroed in for an endless moment, and better than any ringsider, the stay-at-home boxing buff saw the tragic picture of a fighter who had been all but killed in the ring. Next day, after an operation to relieve the pressure on his damaged brain, doctors gave Benny Paret "one chance in 10,000" to live. While he struggled to survive, boxing rolled with the punches as it took one more public pasting...