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...just now starting to come back down to earth a little bit," said Brian Buckley, the only signal-caller picked by the Pats in last month's NFL draft, and a "real prospect," according to coach Ron Erhardt...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fame and Flame | 5/13/1981 | See Source »

...mess around with Mother Irony, they tell one another now at the Café Babar. When the phone rings, no one wants to answer it. Although it is more than a year since Joe Troise and Bill Glanting and the others had their big idea, the caller is more than likely to be some reporter or talk-show crocodile wanting to know about the Dull Men's Club. Dullness had everyone excited there for a while, and it kept things jumping among the regulars at the café, a neighborhood beer-and-sandwich joint in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Babar the other night, Troise came cautiously to the phone and said yes, they were trying to give the club a decent burial. "Don't use my address, O.K.?" There was a good deal of commotion in the background, and the caller asked Troise whether the noise was creative ferment. Well, as a matter of fact, Troise admitted, he and a friend were trying to mobilize the nation's pets to solve the energy crisis. "Put the little beggars on treadmills." Did the movement have a slogan? "Sure: 'It's not enough to be cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...opening day lineup when he accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Ready or Not | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

...behind." For a period of time, aides said, literally no one was running the place: Weinberger was working with Reagan on the budget, while the deputy secretary Carter holdover Frank Carlucci, was acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency. "It's pretty lonely here," a secretary said, telling a caller that with Weinberger and Carlucci out, there was no one else around who could answer questions...

Author: By James G. Herzhberg, | Title: The Endless Transition | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

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