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Maxine does not weep easily. Her soft auburn curls and sparkling blue eyes mask the mind of a prosecutor. She grew up in bloody Harlan County, Ky., the daughter of a union lawyer twice marked for assassination. Maxine's mother shot three men she thought were after him. One afternoon Maxine walked into her home-town Harlan Enterprise and, as she recalls, "told them I knew everything that went on in the county, and they ought to hire me." They did not. She was five years...
...from Chicago, makes the 30-mile trip between her home and Batavia, Ill. There she enters a large concrete-lined room in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, takes a seat in what resembles nothing so much as an electric chair, and waits while a technologist helps her don a mask that holds her face totally immobile. Just before the platform under the chair is lowered beneath floor level, the growth in her throat is located by X ray and pinpointed by three intersecting low-power laser beams. Then Betty's neck is bombarded by a narrow but powerful beam...
Read Santayana! This sly deprecation tries to mask an aggressive and sometimes furious writer. Despite a distaste for self-revelation, White frequently boils over: he takes after fascists in the '40s, loyalty oaths in the '50s, school prayer in the '60s and commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires...
...right, it is Steve Irion. Last year Carey gave Irion a "Mission Impossible Mask Kit" for Christmas and Steve made a mask that looked just like Carey. He didn't try it out until the Cornell game last year, when he netted 19 points, largely because The Big Red was so intimidated by the presence of two Bill Careys. They didn't know who to guard. Now Steve wears it all the time and--what can I say?--the Hoopsters are 3-3 and he's a star...
...that familiar smirk form on your friend's face, the required prelude to a "They're so weird" pronouncement. The judgment thus rendered, the outcast would just as quickly fade out of your reality, but upon occasion you might find yourself wondering what exactly lay beneath that inscrutable mask, what made the misfit...