Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lines like that-Lally edited and wrote for the Boston diocesan paper for 45 years-are rare, and the fan of earlier books like The Friends of Eddie Coyle wishes there were more. Missing too is the sheer busyness of Higgins' gangster population, those lowlife figures that are highly polished miniatures. Half the new book is paragraph after paragraph spliced by "Cavanaugh said." But the substratum that marks all Higgins' work is intact: a dark, unpanicked vision of people being shuffled around, losing out-and talking about...
...himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...
Barney Daly, equipment manager for the Athletic Department: "UCLA and Kentucky. Kentucky could beat them in the finals. Now, I really think that Princeton did the best job of anybody around by winning the NIT. That's cause I'm an Ivy League fan, you know...
Calling the all-Kentucky final Monday night has me schizoid, divided in allegiances and generally torn asunder (I hail from Louisville, but grew up a UK fan). I rounded up all the local soothsayers I could find on the subject, if only for objectivity's sake, and they produced these predictions...
Mother is joined by the group that forms the heart of Cher's fan club-girls who are sub-teen and even younger. For them she is, in the current phrase, "jive." Cher proves that at least one American dream lives: she gives evidence that show biz can still reach out among the adolescent millions and-with a little luck and a lot of hype-transform a mildly talented young woman into a hot, multimillion-dollar property. And that the chosen one gets to have inch-long fingernails for a trademark, if she wants...