Word: farceâ
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...had?long since. The hasty media images by which we fed our curiosity about his years as a celebrity will fade. But the films of his younger manhood, in which his subject was not charm but its fragile and illusionary nature in a world where brutality often masquerades as farce???these will abide to delight and possibly even haunt the future. Some distant day, audiences may even come to agree with a minority of Grant's contemporaries that he was not merely the greatest movie star of his era but the medium's subtlest and slyest actor as well...
...better club unquestionably won. Good pitching by Pitchers Wilcey Moore and George Pipgrass, marvelous pitching by Pennock, the two Ruthian home-runs and the sustained New York attack were too much for the National League team. But the factor that made the series almost a farce??? the factor that enabled the Yankees to run off four consecutive victories (a feat previously performed by only the Boston National League club in 1914) was not so much New York pitching, or New York hitting. It was "errors-by?," errors by Pittsburgh...
...convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story. But after they have you almost convinced, their deft fingers begin poking around into the defenceless ribs of the plot, and it all ends in roaring farce???a glorious melange of wisdom, wit, suspense, absurdity...
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