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...through Manila that the government knew more about the kidnaping than it was saying. The President's wife Imelda had been bitterly opposed to the marriage. For one thing, the family was Roman Catholic and Manotoc was divorced. For another, she did not think that the good-natured jock was worthy of her daughter...
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike. The third adventure of Rabbit Angstrom finds the ex-jock older, thicker around the middle, but still faithful to his love affair with the fading American dream...
...never called a jock until I came to Harvard; but when I came here, just because I played football everyone called me a jock. And personally, I don't consider myself a jock at all," Whittington concludes...
...tiddley training camp is in the Student Center at Tech Square. When I arrived the winkers--as they call themselves--were gathered around some three-by-six double-felt mats that serve as their playing fields. A jock with thumb muscles as taut as steel shot me a cold look from behind his thick glasses. There wasn't another well-toned muscle on his body, but those thumbs were the stuff of awe. Arye Gittleman's thumbs are the biggest and most skilled in the game. For those who don't know already, Gittleman--MIT '83--has a rippling dynamism...
...bulk of the action takes place inside Rabbit's mind, a locale that has become increasingly entertaining. Updike has mastered a supple stream of consciousness that perfectly conveys Rabbit's darting curiosity. This former high school jock may lack all but the rudiments of an education, but he is one of those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment...