Word: herman
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...Herman Roth was a retired Newark insurance man. Until his illness, he was a vigorous and dapper widower, a catch for the golden girls of West Palm Beach, Fla. He spent part of his winters there. The rest of the year he lived in a modest Elizabeth, N.J., apartment where he washed his own socks and underwear in the bathroom sink rather than use the coin-operated laundry in the basement...
...know if that checked shirt goes with those plaid trousers." Roth and his brother agonize about whether or not to let the doctors remove the tumor, an operation that may prolong their father's life but could also remove whatever it is that made Herman Roth Herman Roth. "Will I be a zombie?" he asks...
...will become a Mets fan. Roth rules out surgery and gets the old man interested in baseball. By the end of the 1986 season, he is as enthusiastic as a teenager. When Philip goes to London, Herman burns up the transatlantic phone system keeping his son up to the minute on the play-offs. "Hey," he says, worried about the bill, "I'm giving you this pitch by pitch to London, it's going to cost you a fortune." Roth's grand-slam reply: "But pitch by pitch I was enjoying it enormously, maybe even more than...
Jackson maintains that unlike Barry, Deaver was not a public official when he committed his crimes and that this accounts for the difference. But many experts find the disparity troubling. Says American University law professor Herman Schwartz: "Jackson gives Deaver, who was tampering with the Constitution, community service while he gives Barry hard time for being a coke head." To many observers, the real problem is not that Barry's sentence was too harsh -- he could have been imprisoned for up to a year -- but that North, Deaver and others got off too lightly...
...prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time, would have been perfect airport novels. Herewith a random grab of half a dozen new airporters, none written by Homer or Herman Melville...