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...Every once in a while though," he says with a smile, "I have to warn the guys that I might come down with a case of 'gate-elbow...
Pickens arrived at Texas A&M in 1947 on a basketball scholarship but with no clear idea of what he wanted to do in life. Teammates remember him as a prankster who liked to throw bags of water from hotel rooms during road trips. When a broken elbow cost Pickens his athletic scholarship, he switched to Oklahoma State for his sophomore year. While there, he married Lynn O'Brien, his high school sweetheart. She was 17, he 20. "My mother says she never saw anyone grow up so fast," Pickens recalls. After two years on the dean's list...
Handl establishes the ground rules for this domestic mayhem almost entirely through dialogue interspersed with bits of indirect discourse and peeks into the minds of the characters who happen to be onstage at the moment. This method is undeniably exhilarating, the equivalent of being grabbed by the elbow and shoved into an especially deracinated cocktail party. But the fun grows a bit forced over the long haul; even the most bizarre conversations cannot forever hide the fact that not much of substance is happening. Handl's people are splendidly funny because they all, with the possible exception of Castleton...
...Department moderates and Pentagon hawks remain divided over what compromises, if any, to offer when hard bargaining begins. But in Geneva they cooperated in drafting position papers, cables to Washington and communique language even though, for the sake of secure communications with the White House, they were jammed together elbow to elbow in a small plastic bubble specially set up inside the U.S. mission...
With 8:04 left in the first half, Carrabino engaged. Parent in a finger-pointing episode after the freshman landed an elbow that sent Carrabino into his finest Dusty. Rhodes impersonation...