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...been doing enough to make the contemporary art scene in Boston work. We have to break the rules, we have to do more." And the ICA has helped many Boston artists already. The Stantons say they have discovered the works of such artists as Scott Hatfield, Mags Harries, Peter Hoss. Robert Ferrandini and Joyce Loughran through the ICA. Linda Stux added Magnus Johnstone and Harvey Low Simons to the Stux Gallery's list of exhibitors after seeing their work in connection with the ICA's "Boston Now" show...
...baseball is a delicate matter. Pitchers, especially, grip the edges of their careers like the seams of the baseball, and dig in their fingernails. For example Gaylord Perry, 44, of Seattle, whose next victory will be his 308th, bad news for Charles ("Old Hoss") Radbourn, about to be bumped to 13th after 91 years. Jim Kaat, 44, of the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, is approaching his 25th big-league campaign, dabbling with a new pitch, trying his hand as a submariner. The most enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with...
...players seem to fit the usual classifications. There's an assassin (Keith Cooper), an animal (Carey), a boot (Joe Kanecht), and a hoss (Hassan Riffat). They dress in the traditional fashion, too Bandages, crutches, stitches, broken noses and black eyes are de rigueur Florence Nightingale would feel right at home attending to the players over the post-practice...
...EFFORTLESSLY weaves these sketches together with the rest of his analysis and anecdotes, producing a work of unusual unity. No special theme or theory, but a bounding and unquenchable thirst lot the game reverberates through out, celebrating continuously is this most sublime of as activities. The varied pace of Hoss Life at times crisp and humorous, at others, slow and reflective mirrors the different shades and nuances of baseball itself. The old and the new mix felicitously together...
...1860s Mark Twain wrote a humorous column for the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City, Nev., about a horse that tried to eat a boy on his way to Sunday school ("The boy got loose, you know, but that old hoss got his bible and some tracts ..."). Twain overheard somebody laughing at it and decided to write more columns, all just as hilarious as the first...