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Brian Holloway, a vice president of the NFL Players Association, Dan Marino, a member of the union's executive committee, and Doug Allen, the union's assistant executive director, met for about two hours with the Patriots...
...realize that there are a lot of rumors floating around," tight end Greg Baty said. "I think we're more united after the meeting. We've always heard the same voices, and having Doug there today and Dan Marino, that really helps...
...asserted that in the event of a strike, they would press on with "whatever players are available to play." "I know we'll field a team if it comes to a strike," says Tex Schramm, president of the Dallas Cowboys. "I think we can put on quality football games." Doug Allen, assistant executive director of the players union, understandably disagrees: "Without our players on the field, it will be a ragtag, shoddy product." TV would hardly pay full price ($476 million) for renegades, and the affections of the fans are still frayed from the last unpleasantness...
Socially, Doug is a dependable loser. His technicolor fantasies fail to arouse young women, who think of him as a black-and-white rerun; the older ones are even more bathetic than he is. Worse, the mirror reminds Doug that the half-century mark looms: "50! 50 was General MacArthur . . . the school principal . . . 50 was Abby Meltzner, the delicatessen waiter his parents knew, who retired with the shakes. 'Put down the glass, Abby,' his boss had said. 'You have to go home.' 'I'll go home,' Abby replied. 'But I can't put down the glass...
Unemployed, estranged from love and family, Doug wonders if redemption is possible in the throes of mid-life. It is, and therein lies the book's forgivable flaw. Without warning, the author seems to suffer a failure of nerve, as if the pain of his protagonist were too much for the reader (or perhaps the screen) to bear. Until its sun-washed finale, 50 maintains Corman's gift for putting acute observations in a comic package. But this time out, buyers should discard the pretty pink wrap...