Word: homers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only took another half-inning for Bentley to retake the lead, this time for good. With one out, Duffell walked DeMartinis, and with the Falcons' big gun at the plate--19-homer man Mike Hill--Walsh didn't want to take any chances and sent for the bullpen...
...Homer A. Plessy, described in court papers as "of mixed descent, in the proportion of seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African blood," bought himself a first-class ticket from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana, and took a seat reserved for whites on the East Louisiana Railway. He was jailed for violating an exquisitely even-handed, race-neutral statute that forbade members of either race to occupy accommodations set aside for the other--with the exception of "nurses attending the children of the other race." Plessy insisted he was white, and when that failed, argued that criminal-court judge John...
From the time he was a child growing up in Ankershagen, Germany, in the early part of the 19th century, Heinrich Schliemann knew his destiny. He vowed that when he was a man, he'd prove that the people, places and events that had entranced him in Homer's Iliad--Helen and Agamemnon, the siege of Troy and the magnificent city itself--were more than just legends. Or so he later wrote. Like many of Schliemann's tales, this one may have been a trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says...
...lives of well- dressed, verbally agile gay men orbiting the Manhattan-Fire Island party circuit rather than meek turn-of-the-century waifs searching for love in all the wrong outfits. But for Blue, the narrator and centerpiece of Mark O'Donnell's unusually witty novel Getting Over Homer (Knopf; 193 pages; $21), there is at least hope beyond the sort that a good dose of Zoloft could offer...
...thing, or two versions of the same thing?" He never comes to any sound conclusion, but he has plenty of amusingly trenchant insights along the way. "I don't think odd couples are advisable in nonsitcom life," Blue muses, "in situation reality, in science non-fiction." Getting Over Homer is as much a bittersweet love story as it is an homage to the epigram. And it is terrific on both counts...