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After a year of bastard claims to the throne, North Carolina State finally attained legitimacy last night. Led by crown prince David Thompson's 21 points, the Wolfpack banished court jester Al McGuire and his Marquette Warriors, 76-64, to formally capture the NCAA basketball crown...
...soon became clear that the role of trip's jester had fallen to Sisco. His bombastic humor-not to mention the shaggy old yellow golf sweater he invariably wore aloft-made him a natural for the part. His first big moment occurred as the plane was landing at Rabat, when a large Xerox copier suddenly broke loose and slid toward him. The machine stopped short of crashing into the horrified Assistant Secretary, but not before someone yelled: "Oh, my God, stop it! We can't have more than one Joe Sisco on this trip...
Scrounged Runs. The production had no sooner opened, though, when the jester started to steal the hero's lines. Met Second Baseman Felix Millan, who made only nine errors all season, gave the A's the first game when he let an easy ground ball slip past his glove. "The ball never bounce," said the Puerto Rican sadly after the 2-1 loss. In view of the anemia that was suddenly afflicting red-blooded A's hitters like Reggie Jackson, Williams could only welcome the gift. Said he: "We'll scrounge all the runs...
...lifelong obsession with personal ugli ness began. Unequal to the conventional standards of Southern femininity, Joplin decided to be its antithesis: she became one of the guys-palling around with boys who drank beer, listened to jazz, and tolerated her because she was willing to play court jester...
THIS AND a few other rare moments of lucid, controlled, and articulate insight are promising. The closing passage of the book, in which the main and least heroic character stumbles across his authentic self in the role of the Jester, playing the Fool, is astonishingly effective and almost beautiful. But like so much else about this novel, even this is belated. Revelations in a puddle on the very last page don't exactly compensate for the foregoing wade through 400 pages of ankle-deep slush...