Word: play-by-play
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...already know that Shakespeare virtually invented English. If we are to believe America's critic in chief, the playwright also invented human nature. In this tome the self-styled "Bloom Brontosaurus Bardolater" offers play-by-play essays that are a humane hymn to Shakespeare's continuing relevance as our "mortal god." If he does not quite prove his tremendous thesis, the author of The Western Canon amiably excuses himself on the ground that "explaining Shakespeare is an infinite exercise; you will become exhausted long before the plays are emptied out." Bloom may feel spent after 745 pages...
...Friday in 1995, as I left Brother Gilbert Stadium after the Malden Catholic football team's 22-0 blanking of Westford Academy, I heard the radio system broadcasting the play-by-play from Game Three of the Sox-Tribe series. Returning home, I found the Sox hopelessly behind, 8-2. Yet as Mo stepped up to the plate, the fans gave him a standing ovation for the glorious season that he and the Red Sox had enjoyed...
...from Sony 989 Studios), Madden NFL '99 ($50; EA Sports) and NFL Quarterback Club '99 (due out next month; Acclaim)--are locked in a play-off for market share among gamers who want realistic simulations and fat playbooks. Each game claims that its players are governed by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence that changes according to the play. Each allows you to select camera angles and slow-motion replays. Each features play-by-play analysis. So which of the three should...
This month's issue of Cosmopolitan--which I read solely for the articles--ran a feature entitled "How to Survive a Sports Fan," a women's primer which offered "play-by-play strategies for dealing with your sports-addicted man, so you get to score...
HIRED. Penitent sportscaster MARV ALBERT, 55; by MSG Network; in New York City. Albert, who will play host on a half-hour show and call radio play-by-play for the Knicks, was forced to resign from the network last year following a lurid trial in which he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for biting a former lover...