Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those people keep coming back. Alums areoften active in HRSFA events, like Ender, who madea grand entrance Saturday night into the roomwhere the hounds were painting themselves. Enderstrode in shirtless, already intricately paintedand carrying an enormous homemade bow and arrow...
...carousel horses canters through the air. Angels, hunchbacks, giant toucans materialize as cameo apparitions. Anything may navigate the pool: a bathtub, a giant inverted umbrella, a wayward iceberg, a shark fin that turns out to be the top of a crescent moon. At the end the hunchback plays a grand piano as the princess reclines on it--art, love and beauty in one heartbreaking image--and then, slowly, it dissolves into the water. Here and throughout, O achieves a goal of the highest art: to elevate its audience to a state of awe. Of ohhhh...
...Indians explains how the Yankees were able to do what they did all this remarkable year. John Sterling, the radio announcer, said it in his curious quaver 114 times: "The-uh-uh-uh Yankees win!" They have demonstrated that winning in baseball sometimes consists of perfect games and of grand-slam home runs, but more often of base stealing, of advancing runners in hit-and-run situations, of fouling off ball after ball until the pitcher gets careless, of studying the field like a botanist on every play, of watching and anticipating and thinking...
...personal heroics, there was David Wells' perfect game. There was the 12-game-winning "El Duque," born Orlando Hernandez, the young man and the sea, who paddled away from Cuba and Castro. And Shane Spencer, who descended from Krypton to hit three grand slams in September. Manager Joe Torre moved players in and out of the lineup all year, and no one ever complained about playing time. Since professional sports is almost wholly made up of prima donna billionaires (see the NBA lock-out), that is a rare achievement...
...about himself and his thoughts and fears. He wonders how his sons will handle their parents' separation, insecurely fears that Smith is only playing tennis with him to be nice and contemplates a facet of his philosophy on life. Verghese paints a refreshing portrait of himself not as a grand savior, but as someone vulnerable and insecure, sometimes more so than his patients...