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...Jimmy Carter met the press and they were his," declared the Washington Post's Haynes Johnson after the President's first press conference. Carter had walked into the lair of the press lions, reported Boston Globe Washington Bureau Chief Martin Nolan, and the score wound up "Christians 6, Lions...
Geography was not without a couple of gems. Pat Mendoza and Sue Goodkin insisted that not only were the Bee Gees going to "Massachusetts" to "do the things they gotta do," but were specific in naming "Pine Manor" as their destination. Patricia Nolan wasn't as close. She missed by about 7000 miles when she said Grand Funk encountered chiquitas in Iran instead of Omaha...
...Reds should jump on Philadelphia's third starter -- Jim Kaat, Tom Underwood or Larry Christenson. For the Reds, lefty fireballer Don Gullett is allegedly in top form; but the Schmidt-Luzinski-Allen power block loves southpaw fastball pitchers. Rookie Pat Zachry (2.74 ERA), Fred Norman and Gary Nolan are all solid. Give the edge to Philadelphia here...
...poverty, his fate (he is leaving the prison) and his name-Jams O'Donnell. But The Poor Mouth is as much pretence as plaint. In Gaelic putting on the poor mouth means complaining (according to the dictionary) and feigning suffering to get the advantage in a deal. O'Nolan's humour is as elusive and many-faceted as his name, but The Poor Mouth hides a smile, sure. sure...
...Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where the sky dips into the sea"-visible out the right hand window-to Connemara and Aranmore, seen out the door, to the left-hand view of the Great Blasket "forbidding as an otherworldly eel, lying languidly on the wavetops". O'Nolan-na Gopaleen-O'Coonassa pulls the world in to the heart of Gaelic country and idiom. A chain of personae is a trademark of O'Nolan's literary career--in At Swim, as in O'Nolan's life, there is a writer who creates a writer who creates a writer...