Word: hosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garrison Keillor is still best known as the host, head minstrel and founding fabulist of public radio's weekly Prairie Home Companion, which went off the air almost two years ago. But the shock, for a radio fan leafing through this collection, is to discover, perhaps not for the first or fifth time, that his hero is even more gifted as writer than as entertainer. In a superb story called What Did We Do Wrong?, the first woman major-league baseball player hits .300 but slobbers tobacco juice, gives fans the finger and can't deal with the hot-breathed...
...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...
After storming through its early competition this weekend in the Eastern Championships at Bucknell University, the Crimson (19-2), the eventual third-place finisher in the tournament, played the host team Saturday in the semifinals...
...nation's politics in chaos. Japanese were anxiously asking, What next? First the Liberal Democratic Party must find a new Prime Minister untainted by the scandal. Japan is likely to face months of weak leadership and political uncertainty. That could have consequences as far away as Washington, where a host of trade and defense disputes have yet to be resolved. One of the thorniest was on the way to being settled last week, however, when President Bush approved a controversial deal with Tokyo for production of the new FSX jet fighter once Japan promised to safeguard American jobs and technology...
Then they go home and mull it over till the next big conference, which happens to be in June in Monte Carlo (admission $695, and no freebies). The title, "How to Profit from a World on the Brink," suggests several interesting possibilities: a) starting a financial newsletter; b) playing host to an investment conference and bringing in dueling newsletter editors for entertainment; c) before you subscribe or attend, locking up all your money in a certificate of deposit at 10%; or -- and we have to admit we like this one best, diversification being a very big idea in the investment...