Word: catches
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Surely Morris, 76, deserves to be honored with an assembly of his short fiction? Indeed he does, the only teeny little catch being that the author's extensive bibliography includes just one book of stories, Real Losses, Imaginary Gains (1976). Yet more has gone on here than gathering the contents of one volume into another: of the 26 pieces in Collected Stories, 14 have never before been published between hard covers, and eleven of these were written during the past six years...
...Saturday, the 23rd anniversary of his brother John's death, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) paid a visit to Soldier's Field Park just in time to catch his alma mater's football victory. Wearing a navy blue overcoat and boots muddied from tailgating in the surrounding fields, Kennedy took a stadium seat after visiting the Arlington National Cemetery graves of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert F. Kennedy...
...most visible legacy of Ford's hard times is its aerodynamic Taurus and Sable autos. At the turn of the decade, Ford's cars, like the boxy Fairmont, were literally so square that the company decided it would have to do more than just try to catch up with the European styles that most automakers were copying. Ford chose to jump way ahead, taking the risk that it might come up with another Edsel. Instead, Ford's roundish, so-called jelly- bean designs have enticed car buyers who had abandoned domestic makes for more voguish foreign nameplates. First came...
...there is a catch. Before a producer receives military assistance for a TV or movie project, the screenplay is reviewed by officials at the Department of Defense and by each of the services involved. The Pentagon ends up rejecting many projects that come its way on the grounds that they distort military life and situations. An Officer and a Gentleman, which like Top Gun dealt with naval aviation training, was turned down because of its rough language, steamy sex and, to the military mind, inaccurate view of boot camp. The Pentagon said no to WarGames because the military contends that...
...catch is that the other nine teams started their seasons two weeks ago and have already played nearly 15 games...