Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellows really believed, and I think Grant said it in the locker room after the game, `Hey, that's no upset.' The best team won the game," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said...
...equipped for governing the world, but they are admirable in specific cases of injustice." And he makes such homilies seem the genuine beliefs, born of experience, of his characters. Keneally is equally at home, if less exciting, in lower-middle-class urban Australia and the locker rooms of also-ran athletes. These characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph is to portray, through one family's delusions...
...friends. The bar would offer drinks like "the Caligula" or "the Vlad the Impaler." Imelda Marcos and Michelle Duvalier could meet by the pool for a "Lady Macbeth." The Big Boys could swagger around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...
...sign in the locker room read, "Doubters go home...
Although the visitors took a fourpoint margin into the locker room, the squads stood dead even in rebounds (27 each), total fouls (10) and turnovers (eight...