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...hurts all cyclists." In Eugene, Ore., according to Bicycle Coordinator Diane Bishop of the public-works department, police patrol university areas, especially in their annual autumn bike-safety campaign, in which, she says, "they ticket as many as 100 riders a month." Proliferating cyclists reduced Denver Post Sports Columnist John McGrath to epithet: "Look around: geeks in long black shorts are hunched over a pair of handlebars at every urban intersection, on every country road...
...opined Mr. Dooley--the fictional Irish politician created by turn of the century New York columnist Peter Finley Dunne--in an essay satirizing the High Court's use of complicated judicial philosophies to reach decisions in accord with the politicians who appointed them. To Dooley these philosophies were just rationalizations...
...book about working wives, evolved into a steamy kiss- and-tell memoir, had its best parts lifted by the Washington Post, then was withdrawn from circulation -- all without ever being published. Such was the fate of the 80-page book proposal by Washington Hostess Joan Braden, wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, frequent companion of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and mother of the brood on which the TV sitcom Eight Is Enough was based...
...Pont seem like opposites -- he relaxed and playful, she rather cool and proper. Their friends contend that deep down, they are very much alike. Both are efficient, highly organized and quietly but fiercely competitive. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984 with a combative but haughty campaign. (One columnist, in a wicked play on her name, dubbed her "Elite Bouffant.") She has taken a leave from her real estate business to campaign for her husband, but insists that she will not "merely be a dutiful wife." Within the confines of Delaware's upper class, the two-career du Ponts...
...late 40s, Sports Columnist Doug Gardner is divorced. His ex-wife glamorously remarries and surrounds their teenagers with luxuries. Doug is suddenly uncertain of anything, even jogging: Do you get the benefits of extra endurance now, he wonders, "when you're still able to eat a pastrami sandwich, or at the end when you're already on a life-support system?" The gloomy sportswriter imagines his own funeral, but it is only his columns that die. Corman offers savage, sparkling portraits of the hustlers and operators of professional sport, including a newspaper owner who believes in the lowest common dominator...