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...their agents, management execs, tournament directors and manufacturers' reps have the fresh, openhearted appeal of plant lice. No doubt Andre Agassi's extensive entourage is as pompous and absurd as Feinstein says, and somehow it is not startling to hear that the parents of young French Open winner Michael Chang are widely unloved. But there's more to world-class tennis than posturers and connivers, and Feinstein, who covered tennis for the recently defunct sports daily, the National, misses the the joy of the game almost completely...
...CHANG-LIN TIEN, CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Typical American chronicles that bittersweet journey for Ralph Chang, a Chinese engineering student who comes to the U.S. in 1947 for his doctorate; his wife Helen; and his sister Theresa. The Changs initially disdain the lack of tradition they describe as "typical American" behavior, but soon they are stir-frying hot dogs. They also fall under the spell of Grover Ding, an American-born Svengali of free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American...
...works the margins too. The Chang family in Typical American are devoted baseball fans who call themselves the Chang-kees in honor of their favorite team, but "the one time they went to an actual game, people had called them names and told them to go back to their laundry." Jen, 35, who grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., and graduated from Harvard, is especially intrigued by how outsiders move from the margins into the mainstream...
...Chang and Brent LaTanzi garnered All-Star honors after going undefeated in EITA competition...