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Only Rabb falters a trifle in making Whiteside more of an imp than a monster. Monty Woolley, who originated the role, was white-bearded and corpulent, a sort of malignant Santa Claus. Rabb reveals a trifle too much of the jolly rather than the Old Nick. - By T.E. Kalem
...Samuel Johnson, who mixed gratitude with friendship, defended a benefactor, Henry Hervey, a reprobate despised by everyone else, including Hervey's father. "If you call a dog Hervey," said Johnson to Boswell, "I shall love him." Boswell himself, though no monster, could get on Johnson's nerves, yet Johnson loved him too. His friendship for Boswell was probably based on the need for attentive company, as was Boswell's for him on the need for the approval of an elder. Such friendships between unequals are precarious, but so are all friendships. Passion cools, pleasure fades, pity...
...mustache, Rich Gossage is once again catapulting 95 mph golf balls toward home plate. The only worry is that the Goose might trip and fall as he lumbers eagerly to the mound. George Steinbrenner has already built Gossage his own padded shower room and is considering strapping the playful monster into a 400-ft. baby harness to preserve his health and impeccable record...
...tractors clank down the 200-yd.-long assembly line like gigantic metal insects: 7,500 tractors a month, 90,000 a year, all bearing the trademark Belarus MTZ. Brigades of young laborers clad in work clothes or jeans swarm over each monster, slipping front axles and gear boxes into place, bolting on metal casings, attaching three or four giant wheels...
...capable of resisting the discrete charm of the city's professional athletic assemblages, which have shown an unparalleled ability to lurch from crisis to crisis in a manner reminiscent of the country's foreign policy makers. More likely, you, too, will fall prey to the lure of the Green Monster and the Sirens of Swat...