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Managers' imaginations often come into play during streaks. Throughout the St. Louis Cardinals' eleven-game winning streak, Whitey Herzog's key strategy was to have Reserve Outfielder Dane lorg deliver the lineup card to the umpires. Meanwhile, Earl Weaver was tossing the Oriole clubhouse looking for his own lucky messenger to end the drought. ("Has Elrod Hendricks been out there yet?" Weaver moaned last week...
...Portillo's finance secretary, David Ibarra Muñoz, last month orchestrated a 40% devaluation of the Mexican peso. Unfortunately, the action has done little yet to ease any of the economy's underlying woes. Last week Muňoz resigned, to be replaced by Jesus Silva Herzog, a Yale-educated economist and close friend of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, López Portillo's hand-picked presidential successor when nationwide elections are held in July...
Annaud's quest to ignite this Fire was a noble one. But the film was always likely to spark giggles. Better then to have entrusted it to a prodigious visionary like Werner Herzog, whose best films cut like a sorcerer's scimitar through the legendary past. Herzog might have turned Quest for Fire into a dizzyingly lyrical poem. What Annaud and Brach have provided is a coffee-table textbook...
...seer, a dealer in the currency of big ideas and grand historical visions. And yet, he has street smarts--savvy gleaned from a long well-spent education. But whether a garden-variety schlemiel like Tommy Wilhelm of Seize the Day, a disheveled and dislocated intellectual like Mosses Herzog of Herzog, or a questionably successful writer like Charlie Citrine of Humboldt's Gift. Homo Bellow has the task of getting himself horsewhipped by a comically brutal world. Then, of course, the Bellow protagonist will accept the world as his own awful mother. No fan-fare, no fireworks, just a tidy little...
...reader can never feel so urgent a threat from the debris of the city as Corde lies in the logorrhea of the work, idea-rrhea, maybe, would be a better word. Bellow has long made the wild stringing of ideas a calling card of his, utilizing it next in Herzog. The average Bellow chapter contains mention of more great thinkers than there are on the Modern Library publication list, and usually he pulls it off. But in The Dean's December one senses the so-called "novel of ideas" working back-on itself, turning horror into an abstraction rather than...