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Overweight and out of shape, he enters the Pittsburgh Pirates training camp and suits up. Facing a pitching machine, he writes, "I take a practice swing. It's as if I dropped my pants in an old burlesque house--screams of laughter, hoots, catcalls." In the field, "my body already hurts so much I do not even care. I embrace my wounds. I am St. Sebastian." He also answers to another name. A boy holds out an autograph book and later shows his grandfather the fat player's signature. The old man examines it knowledgeably: "Sure, I know...
...ministry's conference hall, with its marble columns and rostrum, was overflowing. Mounting the rostrum, obviously pained and embarrassed, Malik bleated, "Comrades, I have never before revealed state secrets." Everyone howled with laughter. In another time he would have ended up in prison or worse; now he received only a strogach (severe reprimand...
...question sounded facetious. "Was there anybody who had either given loans or financial aid to you or your family who wasn't subsequently given a federal job?" asked Vermont's Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Laughter rippled through the crowded Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese grinned. But Leahy said he was serious. Meese hesitated, then came up with a name: James Schmidt, a senior vice president of California's Great American First Savings Bank, which had loaned Meese $423,000 in mortgages and loans secured by houses in California and Virginia. Leahy tartly reminded Meese that four...
...cleared her throat. In jeans, boots and braids, she resembled any other college student. But when she spoke, the packed Currier House's "fishbowl" and balcony went hush. When she finished reading her poem, "S M", she paused and asked the audience, "do you cry?" There was nervous laughter and nervous yesses. "It's so hard for you to say that...as my mother says, you'll cry soon enough. And the way things are looking you might as well get good practice...
...guys," Walsh addressed the 49ers, "you know it isn't like this is your first high school game and you're afraid the coach is going to put you in." Their vapors were cured with a breath of laughter, the first move of the chess match. Though a botched kickoff return started San Francisco off on its own 6-yd. line, Walsh declined to deviate from his script of plays. When Freddie Solomon dropped pass No. 1 in the dangerous flat, Montana accepted him back in the huddle with a grin. Throwing for 331 yds. and three touchdowns, running...