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Whenever he returns to his hometown of Fairfield, Fran Lynch is treated by his contemporaries with a mild deference. His football career has always been a mystery to them. They remembered him as the fourth best player on his Roger Ludlowe High School team and as a star on a Hofstra team that played its games before small student crowds...
They remembered, too, the day in 1968 when they sat in this very same bar, watching a Denver Broncos-New York Jets game on the television, and they saw Fran Lynch, a substitute back, score two touchdowns for the Broncos at Shea Stadium. But they remembered little else of Lynch's professional career, other than that he did have a career, for nine years. He played as a backup to Floyd Little, the Broncos' all-star running back, and on special teams, and was one of those little-known players who make a career out of perseverance, luck, good health...
...crimes against nature. When venality becomes a ground rule, a dreariness seeps into the cool night air, and the Red Sox and Mets seemed only alternately able to shake it. "Here's the windup and the pitch," in the modern form, means The Cosby Show is ending, the Merrill Lynch commercials know no boundaries, and it is getting on to 9 p.m. EDT -- cue the pitchers...
...moviegoer's Dante in this travelogue of the surreal landscape called Virgil, Texas. It also represents the first big-screen flowering of the decade's dominant hip sensibility. Like Letterman with his "Small-Town News" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," Byrne is fascinated by the seemingly banal. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, True Stories rides the subterranean currents of bizarre behavior that bubble under Smalltown, U.S.A. "It's a strange world, isn't it?" the characters in Blue Velvet keep saying. Yes, Byrne would reply, strange and wondrous...
...difficult to enforce. Perhaps more important, the Japanese government has agreed to help the U.S. and other countries boost their chip sales in Japan, which currently total about $750 million, by as much as $2 billion within five years. Says Thomas Kurlak, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch: "It has stopped the Japanese ability to steamroll...