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Most Plimpton fans know him through Paper Lion, which while appealing to adults, was also the quintessential gift book from suburban fathers to 13-year-old sons. Plimpton, as the self-effacing yet enterprising fan, symbolized a unique brand of genteel masculinity. As a gift, Paper Lion was a way a father could say "yes" to his son's interest in pro football and its heroes of incredible size and strength, competing at a level unimaginable for ordinary men--and "yes" to his son's desire to be Bart Starr or Mean Joe Greene, tough, hard-bitten, or just awesomely...
...with its month-before-Christmas publication date, it will be a boon to the gift wrap industry. Yet in many ways Plimpton is writing for a narrower audience in Shadow Box. The usual sports figures vie for attention with literary and journalistic personalities. Readers looking for another Paper Lion may be stymied by Plimpton's pages on the death fantasies of contemporary literatteurs and the last words of their historical counterparts. Plimpton seems to be aiming at a readership more cultivated, perhaps, than the TV audience Paper Lion hit; readers who get their sports from the New York Times...
...party in Atlanta, at which all of the guests were figures from Harlem's underworld. Its perpetrators were executed one by one, a justice meted out not by police but by the robbers' underworld victims. The real world intrudes relentlessly in this tale, a real world alien to Paper Lion...
...that you've read some of the fan mail -- and I'm laying all my cards on the table -- I'd like to thank Columbia's Leo de Lion, who picks the weekly Ivy contests from Morningside Heights, for presenting me with the 1977 Leo de Lion award, given annually to that person whose Ivy football prognostications and wit come closest to matching...
...After tomorrow it's over. Some of us -- my brother, for instance, who's been prelaw since the age of four -- have a future to look forward to, but as for me, it's hard to go anywhere when the highlight of your resume is the Leo de Lion Award. Especially when your career prediction records will be just...