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Throwing nine innings of three-hit, shutout ball University of Rhode Island hurler RonBarber led this team to a 5-0 lather-and-hot-towel job over Harvard at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon in a non-league contest. The game marked the second straight shutout for Barber against the Crimson as he blanked them 4-0 last year at Rhode Island...
True to his words, Dutch Shea, Jr. focuses on several provocative characters entangled in a malevolent fate. The Travel's namesake, an assimilated Irish Catholic detective, finds himself constantly having to defend arsonists and murderers, partially because his lather, also a lawyer, committed suicide after being convicted of a white-collar crime. Slowly sinking in a quagmire of guilt and despair. She a still finds time to draw some colorful characters into his world...
...stagecoach holdups. On the wide hillside across the valley, where the dogs are buried, the Spaniards had cultivated vineyards, long since gone. One day Reagan brushed against the native buckthorn bush, and its berries rubbed off on him. Later, when he washed at home, the juice made a lather and he figured out that the Spaniards had used the buckthorn berries as soap...
...time of the Moscow meeting, the free world was in somewhat of a cold war lather. President Carter, in a strong statement, said the U.S. was "watching with growing concern the unprecedented buildup of Soviet forces along the Polish border," and urged that the Poles be allowed "to work out their internal difficulties without outside interference." Warned the President: "Foreign military intervention in Poland would have the most negative consequences for East-West relations." Meeting in Luxembourg, leaders of the European Community predicted "very serious consequences" if Poland were invaded. With a touch of Gaelic hyperbole, Irish Prime Minister Charles...
What is wrong with this picture? Not quite enough to work up a lather over Salley's alleged miseries. Because Salley tells her own story, it is impossible to say how seriously Cheever wants her to be taken. The only real point of suspense in the book is a foregone conclusion: when the right job comes along, Salley gets...