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...turn their attention to the light above the bar, where they root for the Giants or the Jets or, only rarely, the Patriots. They comment on the unfolding action, not with a fan's admiration but with an insider's cynical expertise. They see on the television screen a flash from their past, a dim, half-remembered moment from their athletic youth. They call that moment into focus at the bar, embellishing it. An argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed...
Especially inventive are Nabokov's condensed metaphors, like those in the poetry of imagists such as Ezra Pound. Eerie images flash through the half-aware mind. In the midst of a frenzy of frustrated desire, the protagonist fleetingly notes that the morning's newspaper is dated the 32nd. When the sleepy little girl is led into the hotel, she watches a "doubling cat" through her blurred vision...
...baseballs and cry to the press. Dykstra's ninth-inning homer saved a third loss, and Umpire Fred Brocklander's mistaken out call at first base forestalled a fourth. Houston's essential run was lost. Slumping Catcher Gary Carter eventually won that one in the twelfth inning with a flash single off flamboyant Reliever Charlie Kerfeld, who had given Carter the back of his glove and hand fielding an earlier zinger...
Cohen's foremost argument centers around Cuomo's involvement in the New York races for lieutenant governor and the U.S. Senate. Cohen's distaste for the candidates' "dull" and "boring" nature and lack of "discernible oratorical flair" seems ridiculous in a discussion which otherwise exhorts substance over "flash" as does Cohen's odd, death-wish request that Cuomo support for candidates which are a "threat to him" and "challenge his hold on the bully pulpit...
...never forget that moment of magic potential. In a flash I understood that it would be utterly impossible to fail with a double-play combination named Spike and Marty...