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...from Albuquerque in 1972, did him exactly one better. Cey is dubbed "the Penguin" by his teammates, and he runs as though he were wearing bedroom slippers. No matter; he could have walked the bases after crunching a Catfish Hunter pitch for a three-run homer. Counting an ear lier RBI, the final score was the Penguin 4, the Yankees...
Midwest: The Denver Nuggets' shooting gallery of McGinnis, David Thompson, Dan Issel, and new flinger Charlie Scott should outscore and outlast the other entries of the league's weakest division. The Bulls have no superstars, an aging Norm Van Lier, and a new coach in Larry Costello. The Bucks are a year and a center other than Kent Benson away from winning it all. Indiana lost two of its best players (Dan Roundfield and Earl Tatum), leaving none. The Kings finally have all American Phil Ford under contract. Not bad for the worst team in the league...
...writing that can survive such pas sages deserves attention. Those who keep hoping that McHale.will return to the exuberant comedy and middle-class Catholic characters of his first two novels, Principato and Farragan's Retreat, will again be disappointed. McHale seems stubbornly determined not to repeat ear lier successes. In that respect, at least, The Lady from Boston succeeds. The novel will vex those who expect their reading matter to carry the freight of coherent meaning. Those who do not mind the voyeuristic experience of being interested but not concerned will find it a lot easier to take McHale...
John A. Kralt De Lier, The Netherlands
...guard who arrested her. Here she realizes that, after all, she no longer knows why she is dying. Thirty years ago, in February, 1944, Antigone appeared in Paris at the time of the German Occupation. Under the threat of air raid and without electricity, French audiences packed the Ate lier Theater night after night to see Anouilh's wife, Monelle Valentin, play Antigone in the small patch of light which crept through the stage's skylight. For in her struggle they saw reflected their own. Whereas Creon represented the Vichy government, Antigone was for them the spirit of freedom...