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...when the family was separated, Bill, then the only son, hid from others the disgrace of his father's drunken behavior. The mother and son moved into a new house then, and Bill remembers having to get a neighbor, Jim Clark, to show him how to use a posthole digger for putting up the mailbox. But the girl next door, a minister's daughter who became his close friend in school, never knew about the furies raging inside the Clinton home. No one knew -- not Clinton's high school counselor, not his pastor, not his closest friends...
...speaking to the fans, and "the fans own the game." But fans also think they own the athlete; it makes them possessive and protective. Some are suspicious of women -- sports groupies -- who sue wealthy athletes. Outside the Indiana courthouse last week, a Tyson admirer carried the sign ANOTHER GOLD DIGGER PREYS ON IRON MIKE. Other fans, who are sympathetic to women's issues, simply will not be deprived of the winners who for all their sins give sport its snap and thrill. Can we forget this seamy stuff, the fans plead, and get on with the game...
...even so dogged a digger as Cannon cannot totally excavate all the paradoxes. How a politician so adept at the techniques of public leadership and so closely in tune with Everyman's dreams could habitually divorce himself from the realities of governance remains elusive. Cannon concedes frustration and ambivalence. In one passage he reports his best sources' belief that "Reagan usually operated on the basis of sound instincts and common sense." Later, the same inner circle sees its task as "protecting the Reagan presidency from the clear and present danger of Ronald Reagan...
...bookstores and grabs whatever he writes on the first bounce -- to be able to quit his assistant U.S. Attorney post in 1973, and eventually to leave off the practice of law altogether. That year he published a superb second novel (16th, counting those in the Rockland dump) called The Digger's Game. If somebody isn't teaching this small marvel in writing classes, then U.S. education is in worse shape than we have been told. Probably not, though; there is an indictable villainy or two in the plot, and Higgins is pigeonholed, wrongly but irretrievably, as a crime novelist...
...hear the Clam Digger Band playing "When The Saints Go Marching In." This can't be a football game...the cirucs must be in town...