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...also written this novel. And why not? Even in the old days, Ehrlichman had a way with words. It was he, for instance, who came up with the phrase "modified, limited hangout," a memorable locution, which in practice was roughly translatable as "admit as little truth as possible and try to put the whole blame on John Mitchell." So successful were the President's men at concealing truth that despite all the reports, books and films since Watergate, Ehrlichman's novel is sure to be grasped by his still frustrated countrymen in hopes of gathering a few more...
Craig and a pal from the country club get themselves mixed up in a real estate deal with a trio of bad-ass good ole boys who want to buy up a block of downtown property and build a highrise. Craig's job is to purchase a rundown hangout for body building called the Olympic Spa. The boys should have known better. Craig gets sucked into the strange rituals of the place, the exercises, the competition and-most of all -the mystical subculture of pumping iron. He makes friends with Joe Santo (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a former...
...calendar on the clubhouse wall claims it has been nearly six months since the Boston Red Sox have played baseball at their Jersey St. hangout, but the 32,000 fans on hand for yesterday's Fenway opener knew better. It has been just a long yesterday since the Series games of Luis Tiant's pitching gyrations and Carlton Fisk's dancing home run--and the dream deferred last October quickly redeveloped for the Fenway faithful as the Red Sox, powered by a ten hit attack, downed the Cleveland Indians yesterday...
...Womanlove" most of what the writer has to say is, like the title, banal; "Daylight" is glutted with loaded, but not particularly related, imagery. None of these is totally uninteresting, however--unexpected phrases make them worth looking through. Only the poem about a chop suey joint and high school hangout is boring...
Good food and excellent French wines were still available at the Hotel Caravelle, a favorite hangout of foreigners in the old days. Lissome Saigonese women wore hip-hugging jeans and colorful ao-dais; although the P.R.G. frowns on prostitution, streetwalkers and bar girls were still hawking their charms. American pop songs blared out from the jukeboxes of cafes and bars, and the old Thieves' Market on Bac Si Calumette Street was jammed with TV sets, cameras and transistor radios tak en from abandoned American...