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Inside Wrigley, though, there is a very distinctive flavor, most of it found among the thin row of bleacher seats that line the left and right field corners. Every ballpark seems to attract its characters in the "cheap seats." Suntan lotion, lots of cold beer and a very vocal commentary on the lighter side of baseball often characterize the bleacher crowd. And the fans at Wrigley are no exception...
...same fan who squelched my overzealous animosity towards their team, and the same fan who did not accept a mere win as excellence. But rather the fan who looks for the sound thrashing of an opponent as something to talk about. Perhaps I had tasted the real flavor of Fenway...
Even Watson's new press facility is sparkling, although it will miss the special aroma of Bill Scheft's cigars and the lived-in quality of his tobacco juice excretions. But somehow Section 18 just won't be the same: it has lost the special character and flavor. It looks too sterile, and I can't imagine some future John Arnold or Fritz McLoughlin unwrapping an ugly, ten-pound fish and hurling it onto the back of some unsuspecting Dartmouth goaltender...
...season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When it's mixed with lobster, "the lobster flavor penetrates the monkfish, and you think you're eating only lobster." Besides, Child pointed out, in these days of ballooning prices, monkfish...
...flavor of this play is Tennessee Williams in a mildewed tea bag. The setting is a dilapidated gingerbread boathouse in Lebanon, Mo. The time is 1944 or, more pertinently, the limbo of time wasted. The heroine, Sally (Trish Hawkins), is 31, and a Wasp whose real creed is to suppress emotion in gentility, a twin sister to Alma Winemiller of Summer and Smoke. The hero, Matt (Judd Hirsch), is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis, a bachelor of 42 and one of life's perennial Gentleman Callers...