Word: onely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject's memory or trigger fresh stories. "I push as far as I can go," he says. "I'm not trying to change a person's version of himself." Novak works from transcriptions of his interviews, occasionally going back to the tapes to capture the subject's voice -- one of his strengths, he believes. A couple of months into a collaboration, he begins showing the subject drafts of chapters. The subject usually offers changes and comments ("Bill, this stinks!" scrawled Iacocca). Novak tries to incorporate the lively ones and drop the dull...
...humor and mulling future celebrity subjects. He muses about Mikhail Gorbachev ("but somehow I think he's busy right now"), and, as a music lover who has recently resumed piano lessons, he thinks about Paul McCartney or Barbra Streisand. "Or Elvis, if he can find him," wisecracks Ben, 10, one of the Novaks' two sons. As for a return to the solo byline of William Novak, he says it's not soon likely. "I get far more ego gratification and attention from these books than I ever did from my own." But aren't the celebrity books...
...short fella is not so short, not quite so homely. It just seems that way because his 5-ft. 10-in., 148-lb. frame is diminished, standing, as he is, at the edge of a grove of young Paul Bunyans. He's talking to -- no, he's shouting at -- one of them. About the option play. How to execute it correctly. As he plants one foot and pivots decisively, moving his hands in a precise pattern that he's repeated thousands of times before, the young man in the football jersey barks...
...lisp is less evident now, and any thoughts one may have had of this man idling afternoons away over a fishing rod disappear. Abruptly, he turns away from his quarterback and stalks downfield toward the defense. Out of the corners of their eyes, the helmeted giants and his assistant coaches see him coming. Chests tighten. The execution and speed of the defensive drills rev up a notch. The simple reason: no one is eager to receive one-on-one remedial instruction from Louis Leo Holtz on this or any upcoming autumn afternoon...
...from which it had fallen in mortification under the earnest but inept Gerry Faust. Last year Holtz drove a young, tentative team to a 12-0 record and a national championship with a variation of the message that ugly ducklings can become beautiful swans if they work hard, love one another and believe they can be great. Holtz fervently believes that. He also devoutly embraces traditional values, specifically the importance of having on his side God, ferocious linebackers and halfbacks who, once they are given the football, run like scalded dogs...