Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollars to each man) imparted ironic force to the story. And then there were the poignant sidebars: the little boy crying "Say it ain't so, Joe," as Shoeless Joe Jackson, greatest of the team's several great players, emerged from the grand-jury room one day; the sports-page paragraph that almost annually recounted Buck Weaver's latest pathetic attempt to clear his name (he was not part of the conspiracy but knew about it, failed to report it and was punished with the rest...
...fits naturally into the landscape of her work. Some readers may be reminded of The Big Chill or even of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Not quite. Rather, < Tyler pays tribute to ordinariness the hard way: without benefit of her usual whimsy and antic inventiveness. Every page says, about as well as it can be said, that what you are reading about may not be wonderful, but it is life...
Earl Warren's dated sigh about men's failures being on the front page and their successes on the sports page changed to a laugh last week when, in the same edition, several football agents, two boxers and a hockey player extended the fields of play to a grand jury room, an all-night boutique in Harlem and a prison cell...
...leaning on the letter of that law and the essential provision of presumed innocence, the diver Bruce Kimball posted bail on a double vehicular-manslaughter charge and instantly sprang back into the pike position. But he lost his Olympic trial and soon must turn to the other kind. What page of the paper suited this sad specter whose face was flattened by a drunk driver seven years ago? Since then he has garnered six traffic citations of his own, and one Olympic silver medal...
...signed him. He boxed professionally. And he collected friends. On the court and in the courtroom, standard rules and common guidelines begin to describe legality and morality, but personal honor may be the heaviest measure of the account. Last week, the success was found on the obituary page...