Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relief pitcher touts a comic strip featuring a zany resembling himself. The first baseman is renowned for raising hell and racing thoroughbreds. The second and third basemen are hosts of a radio show. Other players dabble in transcendental meditation. But none of that for the single-minded leftfielder who gets his kicks from brutalizing a baseball with...
...good town of Amity. Brody senses that the fish is supernatural too, not as God's work, but as God's vengeance wreaker. "The fish is too much for us. It's not real, not natural. All we can do is wait until God or nature or whatever the hell is doing this to us decides we've had enough. It's out of man's hands...
Died. Edward Thomas (Eddie) Brannick, 82, top aide to the owners of the New York and San Francisco Giants for 65 years, and one of the most popular front-office men in baseball; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Raised in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen, Brannick dropped out of school at age 13 to become a bat boy for the Giants' legendary manager, John ("Little Napoleon") McGraw. From the era of Christy Mathewson to that of Willie Mays, Brannick served as the Giants' traveling secretary, winning friends and influencing sportswriters...
...human dimension, the spy seldom grows large enough to tell universal truths. Instead, he becomes an extension of the tortured child of Kosinski's indelible first novel, The Painted Bird, and the deracinated hero of his second greatest work, Steps. Like these central characters, Kosinski once fled the hell of war and totalitarianism; like them, he suffered unnamed-and perhaps unnameable-trauma. Cockpit seems to be a refraction of those anguished early years. If it is, then the novel's epigraph need not be from Dostoyevsky but from Auden, whose insight remains the subtext for all acts...
Annie looked at Daig like he was being naive. "Yeah, but who the hell wants to be a spare," she said darkly, almost to herself...