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...this point Lodge simply pulls an ending out of a hat--every one gets saved. The novel simply falls back on what Robyn describes as the standard solutions of the Victorian novelist: legacy, marriage, emigration and death...
...through his own pregame drill. He chats up players and reporters and makes small talk with fans, using a down-home twang and slang that belie ten years of New England schooling. They seek his autograph as eagerly as they do the players'. Bush scribbles on a baseball, a hat, a scrap of paper. On this warm summer evening, not one sportswriter or spectator asks about his relative with the extra middle name, George Herbert Walker Bush. In Arlington the White House feels about as far away as Tiananmen Square, both in distance and in culture...
Toad's muscles glowed with well-being. He sported a touraco feather in his slouch hat. He had walked for days out of Kitich, a remote, beautiful camp on the Nyeng River in Northern Kenya, and now was skirting the Mathews Range in sandy, thorny country. Vultures wheeled over a distant lion kill. Toad was walking through heaven...
...field." Because the controversial Giamatti letter predated Dowd's interview with Rose, let alone Giamatti's hearing (originally scheduled for May 25), Stachler argued that Rose had already been "found in effect guilty." The captain of baseball's squad of attorneys, Louis Hoynes, talked about a commissioner with two hats. He said Giamatti was wearing his "investigator hat" when he sent the letter, not his "final decision- maker hat." In any event, Hoynes argued, baseball proceedings were less formal than legal ones, and the commissioner of this private organization was entitled to "depart from the rules of evidence...
Bentsen, 63, is a tall man made taller by a Stetson hat and black ostrich- skin boots. His face is covered with a thin wash of freckles, and his steady brown eyes size up his conversation partners from behind thick, black- framed glasses. On most days Bentsen, who is a first cousin of Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, can be found in an air-conditioned office managing his real estate investments. He used to raise steers on his ranch until he realized that "cattle bore me to death...