Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the new owners are not in the game just for the money. Eric Margenau bought into Indiana's South Bend White Sox last year, soon after his son Max was born. Says he: "I had visions of sitting in the front row, watching a game, me and my boy." The priceless pleasures of the ball park also attracted Craig Stein, a real estate developer who is an owner of the Reading Phillies of Pennsylvania and the Memphis Chicks. Says he: "Nobody likes development. You're the bad guy. In baseball, at the end of the night...
...thesis topic, who claims "competences in Philologik, Linguistik, Pedagogik, Psycho-Analytik and Aerobik," but whose command of English is not so confident as his manner of address. "What I like is to take your 'campus-novels' . . . and compare them with the works of your better competitors -- as, Thom. Hardy, Max Beerbohm, J.I.M. Stewart . . . and David Lodge." Bradbury cannot resist compounding the young man's confusion ("It was clever of you . . . to work out that in fact I am several if not all of the authors you mention") while offering him a few biographical scoops ("It has been a difficult business...
...through myths of immigrant struggle and showbiz martyrdom that were born in the U.S.A. Increasingly, too, Hispanic artists and entertainers are courting the mass audience in English. Many of the nation's Latino theaters perform in English only. "I don't want to be a good Hispanic theater," says Max Ferra, Artistic Director of Manhattan's predominantly English INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center. "I want to be a very good American theater." After writing two books in Spanish, Novelist Roberto Fernandez has just published his first in English, Raining Backwards, a comic account of Cuban life in Miami...
...visit to the University of Utah in 1977, the author grows enamored of a teaching fellow and confides to his journal: "Lonely and with my loneliness exacerbated by travel, motel rooms, bad food, public readings and the superficiality of standing in reception lines, I fell in love with Max in a motel room of unusual squalor." Near the end of his life, Cheever, ill with cancer, appears along with John Updike on The Dick Cavett Show. Donaldson carefully paraphrases Cheever's critique of himself after viewing the broadcast: "He looked like a viper trying to break wind, he wrote Updike...
...seeing double before you've settled in your seat. Fanciers of '30s screwball comedy may chafe at this film's substitution of efficiency | for energy, of speed for style; they may yawn at an old mirror-image routine that Midler essays, which is lifted from Silent Comedian Max Linder and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. But Big Business was designed as a compact car, not a classic. Once Director Jim Abrahams (Airplane!) hot-wires the mechanism, the plot takes care of itself, and the movie pretty genially takes care of any audience looking for frenetic summer fun. It's value...