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Afield, Clemente had to be seen to be believed. His circus catches and rifle arm were things of wonder. Two seasons ago, he saved a game against the Astros by making a diving, sliding catch of a humpback liner into short right. In the same inning he took off after a home-run ball, leaped, twisted backward and snared the ball as he slammed into the wall, injuring his ankle, knee and elbow. "He took it full flight and hit the wall wide open," marveled Astro Manager Walker. "It was the best catch I've ever seen." Clemente also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Requiem for Roberto | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

LAUGHING ALLEY 592 Comm. Ave. Pocket Mine Circus Thurs.-Sat. at 8:30. LEGAL SEAFOODS. Inman Sq. Proposition Cabaret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 1/11/1973 | See Source »

LAUGHING ALLEY. (592 Comm. Ave.) Pocket Mime Circus, Thurs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 1/4/1973 | See Source »

...Chinese city of Shenyang. Unless one counts the Chinese Ping Pong team, the Shenyang troupe is China's first cultural export to the U.S. under the exchange agreed to last winter by President Nixon and Chou Enlai. It is a delightful debut, a cross between a Chinese circus and a ricksha pileup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tricksters' Ancient Art | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Grendel, John Gardner was busy turning monsters into men-and vice versa. His highly compressed story sang and winced and gibbered in its metaphysical chains, but it said a good deal about the dark origins and necessary delusions of society. The Sunlight Dialogues, by contrast, is an enormous trick circus trunk out of which the author keeps taking new literary treasures as if they were so many fake bananas. A philosophical disquisition upon religion and justice? Yes. A compassionate portrait of America in the uneasy '60s? Yes. A Faulknerian melodrama complete with intricate violence, small-town dynastic decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Realism | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

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