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While it might seem appropriate for those who have not read the book to pigeon-hole it as the record of a cultural moment--a peek into the lives of artists with AIDS in '80s New York--Gurganus insists that the reader love the book for the humanness of its characters. "We have all been upstaged by the newsworthiness of our particular disaster," writes Gurganus/Hartley in one of the story's more pointed moments. In Plays Well With Others, however, Gurganus triumphs in crafting an emotionally and literarily memorable work...
...find it difficult to pigeon-hole myself," Birmingham says. "I'm something of a hawk on balanced budgets, but on spending issues I'm rather progressive within the block of money that we have...
Even when Mattingly was later found guilty of public urination, it did not change my view of him. When I think about "the Hit Man," I remember the sweet swing that parked six grand slams into the seats in 1987. I see the pigeon-toed batting stance that every little leaguer in New York tried to imitate. I think about him reaching into a young fan's popcorn bag after chasing down a foul...
...sure, not all concentrations, and not even some of the largest, are easily pigeon-holed as falling under one of the two broad categories. Economics, for example, seems to be the unwanted stepchild of the Harvard curriculum. Ask a Chemistry concentrator if Economics is a science and you will often get an emphatic no; ask a History and Literature concentrator if it falls under the rubric of the humanities and they too are likely to reply in the negative. Pre-meds who are not also science majors also straddle the dividing line between the two camps. However, they, too, seem...
Pinsky is not a one-issue man. Since the press conference on Friday, he has mentioned several projects, running the gamut from poetry education to a survey of the current taste in verse. For two reasons, it is unfortunate that the press is largely pigeon-holing him as the man who will bring poetry to the Internet. For one, there is far more to Pinsky than the Internet; for two, the Internet may be his weakest side...