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...made some mind-numbingly silly and unnecessary defensive errors,” Crimson coach Erik Farrar said. “[The Bears] worked hard for a couple of their goals, but we have got to do a better...
...cheerful, good-natured, owl-spotting nature boy? And what has he done with Jonathan Franzen? He's not the same tortured genius who wrote The Corrections. Success has changed him. He's a slightly different kind of genius now. His wonderful and supremely personal new memoir The Discomfort Zone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 195 pages) offers a few clues...
...From SEA OF GRAY by Tom Chaffin, published by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux LLC. Copyright (c) 2006. All rights reserved...
...Farrar was succeeded by Will Weng, and then by Eugene Maleska, a New York City school teacher. I remember being pleased to read of Maleska's accession, for I knew his name as a Dell puzzle constructor. But Maleska was a conservative chap, a one-man Academie Francaise of English. He seemed to believe that the language had frozen decades before. Cultural references tended toward opera trivia and the novels of long-dead white males...
...annual crossword puzzle tournament at the Marriott in Stamford, Ct. He founded it in 1978, mostly out of an urge - a strange one, considering the solitude in which crosswords are constructed and solved - to meet other puzzle people. At the first tournament, the guest of honor was Margaret Farrar. And in 2005 filmmaker Patrick Creadon brought a crew there to record the competition, which would be the centerpiece for Wordplay...