Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late afternoon the sky sours--all grey tension and flat light. Pulling into Tower Junction, we look for 6-10, a Park Ranger who went to school with Fred. The Park Service people live in a ratty cove of mobile homes parked on a patch of mud and gravel. Out of a faded beige unit, Briggs, Fred's exroommate and my future roommate in Ketchum, steps. He's broken up with his girlfriend so he hitched up from Ketchum--about seven hours away--to do some fishing. The streams are high and muddy, and the trout few, 6-10 gets...
...olde lyric courtyard," as sportswriter Peter Gammons calls it, is the most beautiful patch of baseball turf in America. Small, old, eccentric, and a deep shade of natural green, it has escaped--with a few other holdouts like Chicago's Wrigley Field--the lunar module theory of the modern stadium: the physical analog to the wide franchises and slick operations of the new corporate baseball. This is a neighborhood park--no gargantuan concrete egg laid in the center of a vast parkingscape, slabs for seats, plastic astrograss, and conveniently adjacent to the suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe...
...sadly typical that the "solution" amounted to a bleary, last-minute patch-up-an outcome that in fact might have been worked out weeks before. The settlement bought time, but New York still faces serious financial problems that can only be solved by continued austerity-a difficult policy when the large, tough civil service unions can throw the city into chaos any time their swollen contracts are threatened...
...anxious to protect with every manipulative bone in their bodies. Kearns has a tenured chair on the line. Glikes has a fine editorial reputation at stake, and Goodwin must fear his betrayal as the ogre. When you call them up, they talk a lot, to attempt to preserve that patch of integrity...
Scientology has also helped patch "a terrible relationship" with her mother. When she was an aspiring actress, things got tense at home in Park Ridge, Ill. Mother would ask daughter if she would like help setting her hair, and Black wondered, "Why is she doing this? Is she trying to smother me? Destroy me?" Scientology has since allayed such fears, soothed her about her recent divorce from Actor Skip Burton, and given her some new, if hardly original, insight: "He wasn't the right...