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Conversations do that in Victories (Henry Holt; 298 pages; $19.95), Higgins' maliciously funny new novel, set not in his usual Massachusetts courthouse corridors but in hardscrabble Vermont farm country. A slippery statehouse politician named Ed Cobb tries to persuade Henry Briggs, a retired major- league relief pitcher, to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Briggs, a born-and-bred Vermonter and no fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball...
...Kendalle Cobb '92, producer of special events for CityStep, said she was delighted that the upcoming first-year parents' weekend did not affect ticket sales...
...glad that many students support CityStep," said Cobb, calling the ball "really the biggest fund-raiser for CityStep...
...popular culture frequently assert that the national soul is mirrored in the game of baseball. Yet it takes great faith -- not only in his own intelligence but also in the audience's -- for a dramatist to depict the making of the American imperium through the life of centerfielder Ty Cobb. The nation's theater has long excelled at the agonies and ecstasies of family life but has faltered at portraying the broad sweep of public life; its ambitions have been toward emotional, not intellectual, riches. Thus two new plays appearing in metropolitan San Diego would be noteworthy for their reach...
...COBB. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods) joins forces with director Lloyd Richards (Fences) for a complex, intriguing look into the mystique of that nonpareil player and apparent racist, Ty Cobb, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater...