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Earl, a raggedy 14-year-old orphan, lives in his great-aunt's tumble-down boardinghouse in the black section of Quarrytown, Ga. It is, in effect, a nursing home; the boarders are all geriatrics cases. Earl's best friends are Em Jo-john, a giant, anarchic Indian who works occasionally as handyman, and Tio, a black grocery clerk with the practical native genius of Ben Franklin...
...permitted Sir Toby to stress the second syllable of "exquisite" and bidden him change "Sophy" to "Shah of Persia." Let's leave Shakespeare's text alone. When you start tinkering with obscure terms, where do you stop? The audience does not want to have gratings thrust upon 'em...
...Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among his bêtes noires white socks ("Shoot 'em on sight. As bad as turtlenecks...
...early to know what sort of traditional defense (or "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em" strategy) may result from this by far the most massive assault yet by the Visigoths. Preliminarily, though, cliometrics seems to have scored heavily. TIME consulted a dozen American scholars, many of whom had read the book in advance of publication...
...thinking, 'Try everything you want. Rub up the ball. Move the fielders around. Throw me hard stuff, soft stuff. Try anything. I'm still going to hit that ball.' God, do I love to hit that little round sumbitch out of the park and make 'em say 'Wow!' " Opposing pitchers like Baltimore's perennial 20-game winner, Jim Palmer, believe him. "When I'm pitching against Jackson," says Palmer, "I'm happy just keeping the ball inside the park...