Word: morrision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like any other good teacher, Jim Morris thought his students weren't working up to their potential. When kids on the high school baseball team he coached in Big Lake, Texas, complained that he was throwing too hard in batting practice, he told them to quit whining. After all, this...
And what is truth, anyway? The new Reagan biography features a fictional character, bearing the author's name (Edmund Morris) but with a fabricated past, who encounters Reagan at various junctures. Fiction--with supporting footnotes, no less--in the authorized biography of a living President!
At least Morris is not out to deceive. His invention, unlike those of Said and Menchu and the rest, is just a device, open and bold. Yet that very openness tells us how far we've come in bending the notion of historical truth. Morris' Morris could not have happened...
After batting against Morris in practice, the Owls now saw their opponents' pitches as if they were in slow motion and made it to the second round of the play-offs. Morris heard a radio ad for a tryout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in a neighboring town. So...
Morris explained that he was just there to settle a bet, so the scout for the Devil Rays laughed and put him last on the schedule. After assessing 60 unpromising teenagers, the scout was eager to go home and told Morris to hurry. Without warming up, Morris threw his first...