Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalists who missed the story. Pam Maples, a political reporter for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, expressed a typical reaction: "This paper has tended to be very conservative about rumors. After the Gary Hart story broke, there was guilt here among some of the editors and reporters. You know, he was the hometown boy. The feeling was, Shouldn't we have been doing that story...
...novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands"). But the very unity of this collection produces a sameness. The reader begins to wonder, Doesn't Minot know anyone who is married, or older than thirtysomething? Doesn't she ever look beyond these modish urban lofts and restaurants? Henry Kissinger once remarked of Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew that he needed a larger country for his talents. Minot, a writer to watch, needs a larger subject...
...seasons, no one has been depressed to know that there was a baseball player who lived his life according to the numbers, who kept statistics in so many categories that he seemed to be a portrait of a ballplayer painted by the numbers. On the contrary, the calculations of Pete Rose have been central to his charm. Who else remembers ordering room service in 1963, and that...
...have some 70 hits against Phil Niekro, and some 40 hits against Joe Niekro, is it twisted to be aware that you have over 100 hits -- one-fortieth of all your hits -- against Mrs. Niekro's sons, and to wish she'd had more children? Doesn't everyone know how much money they have in the bank...
...chocolate-colored unitard, takes the Elvis song from the record player when it finishes and puts on George Michael's Kissing a Fool. She cocks a hip and asks the women: "Will anyone else be kissing a fool today?" She is answered by a breathless chorus: "Yeah!" "I know I will...