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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unfortunately we didn't connect on all the shots like we could have," McAnaney said. "The goalie was good but we made her look even better...
...most part the essays are enjoyable--an honest and profound look at America, at human success and failure and at growing up. They portray an era and are perhaps more meaningful than the slew of backward-looking books that vomit up recent social history...
...including A's terror Jose Canseco). One double-play ball got bollixed in his mitt, but he is under way. "You do wonder," he says, "if you're going to be the guy who was billed to make it, who never did, or if you're going to look back someday and say, 'This is where it all began.' But I've always dreamed, 'What if this happens,' and it always has. I've been lucky...
...Guinness Book of World Records does not have to look further than the sponsor's backyard to find a candidate for the oldest struggle for independence. One character in Peter Maas' richly layered novel of Paddys and Provos says the Irish have been going at it since the 12th century. Tragedies tend to turn into romances over that length of time. Rough madness is temporized...
...student who eventually skipped college to become a newspaper copy clerk. He also, quite understandably, became interested in whether his parents had actually been Communists. When he was eight, he first blurted out the question to his father. "I remember the silence that followed and my not daring to look at him," Bernstein writes. "My question offered no escape; there is no Fifth Amendment for eight-year-olds." His father tried to skirt the question, speaking instead about the irrelevance of party membership and the persecution of progressives. "I didn't ask any questions when he finished explaining...