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...travel was better in those days; the surfaces are better today. But if you start arguing dead balls and bad gloves, spitballs and relief pitchers, nobody can win." All the same, he had to put in a word for speedy "black outfielders," none of whom were allowed to confound Cobb. "Willie Mays and Bobby Bonds were chasing my stuff down," Rose reminded. In a telephone call ) that much entertained the press box, a deskman back at one newspaper had a question: "Is he saying black people run faster than white people?" Stop the presses...
Iacocca's tough-guy face and intense, you-gotta-believe-me manner are not supposed to work well on the cool medium. Perhaps Americans permitted him to confound the rules because he seemed like almost no one else in the limelight: he is, after all, the apotheosis of the regular guy. To a viewing public ordinarily soothed and stroked by carefully inoffensive spokesmen, Iacocca's bluntness was electrifying. In addition, of course, there has been the sheer quantity of exposure over the past five years. In all, Iacocca's 30-second spots have reached 97% of American households an average...
Even some who admire Jahn's use of form wince at the materials, like the strips of aluminum and the tacky-looking colored panels, "popular" elements that confound his gestures toward the ideal. Jahn protests descriptions like "cheap" and "glitzy." "The materials look unusual, but they are not cheap," he says. "This is the type of building that takes time to digest and to understand." Indeed, the architect feels confident that he has designed a landmark. "Just wait 20 years," he grins. "Someone will try to replace the blue panels, and it won't be allowed...
Difficult Loves may further confound the unwary. All of its 28 stories date from the 1940s and '50s. Their language (some pieces have been translated by William Weaver, the rest by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright) is straightforward, with nary a hint of narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light...
...storms that are too far away to be seen, changes its course, and you are left in a desert, all alone. These irrational changes, of course, produced by a political vengefulness that is alien to American life, are a great danger. They confuse our friends, mislead our adversaries and confound our own plans for a more manageable world...