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Herb Gardner, author of the 1962 A Thousand Clowns, is the laureate of losers who wage hopeless battles while cracking jokes. He celebrates fighting the system as the way to keep the soul alive. So when he puts two old men on a bench in I'm Not Rappaport, it is not surprising that they are engaging codgers, inspired liars, tattered but gallant knights-errant. They take on the muggers, the drug dealers, the authorities who impose mandatory retirement, all without moving more than a few feet from the bench. Their skirmishes are uproarious. What gives the play...
...Bowl together that year, and at one point Mansfield gave voice to their unreasonable dream of someday playing in one. As it happened, they would play in four, starting back in Tulane Stadium at Super Bowl IX. "The few of us who spent half our Steeler careers with a hopeless bottom team gazed around that field at each other and at the younger players. They had no idea." The starving team from the starving town at the great banquet. "They had absolutely no idea." X Pittsburgh Steelers 21 Dallas Cowboys...
...tragedy of history is not the perpetual hopeless clash between saintly individuals and diabolical establishments, but rather the perpetual clash between the relatively decent societies and the bloody ones. To be more precise: the perpetual cowardice of relatively decent societies whenever they confront the ruthlessness of the oppressive ones...
...serious roll-the movie Fever Pitch is based on a memoir of his, and Johnny Depp just bought the rights to A Long Way Down-like JJ, Hornby knows the pain of a stalled career. "A lot of that is about remembering how frustrated and hopeless I felt when I was 30 and didn't think I'd ever be able to do what I wanted to do," Hornby says. "My first book was published when I was 35, so everything feels quite recent to me. The slow, poor, what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life...
...aren't good. Not only are nearly a third of American adults obese, but a quarter of them--22% of men, 28% of women--admit that they spend virtually no leisure time getting exercise. The good news is that this is an improvement. In 1990, 31% admitted to being hopeless couch potatoes...