Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course as a novelist, his afternoons are free. No nine to five obligations for this pen pusher. Such is not the case for most folk, though, and there's just a bit of arrogance, dare I say elitism, in this novelist's attitude. Sitting in the stands on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Wrigley, clad in Polo shirt and docksiders, our novelist had forgotten the most important thing about major league baseball...
Like Crash Davis, the aging catcher in the hit summer movie Bull Durham, most minor-league baseball players ache to make it to the big leagues but spend their careers taking bumpy bus rides between small-town ball parks. They are like writers who aspire to pen the Great American Novel but settle for scripting comic books: their lives are a compromise, an apology for what might have been...
...face of the unrelenting cynicism of those who take the time to put pen to paper on a regular basis these days, Cole's sentimentalism--what even he admits to be a weakness for sugary-sweet melodrama--is not only refreshing, but also provocative. It forces us to consider whether we measure up to standards set before us, for in deifying certain individuals, Coles seals off from us the escape route of searching for faults in those seeking to do good...
After delivering a short campaign speech in the central plaza of Dolores Hidalgo (pop. 85,000), Cuauthemoc Cardenas walked to the museum honoring the local priest who in 1810 issued the call to arms that sparked Mexico's wars of independence. Adjusting his glasses and removing a pen from the pocket of his tailored white shirt, the left's candidate in next week's presidential elections hovered over the visitors' book. "I pay homage to Don Miguel Hidalgo," he wrote. "His sacrifice inspires us to take up once again the struggle for our independence and freedom...
...about $11,800) remain among the most popular cars on the road. The revamped Lincoln Continental ($26,600 and up) is in such demand that some customers must wait as long as five months for delivery. To appease impatient Continental buyers, Ford has started to send them $20 Cross pen-and-pencil sets along with an apologetic note; one customer returned the gift, expressing a preference for the car. Hottest of all are Ford's trucks: last year more than 550,000 of the F-Series pickups (base price: $10,176) were sold, putting them ahead of any other truck...