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...SUBJECT this lesser half of a noted pair, this shadow of a shade, Brinnin is unable to sustain the same degree of focus and self-effacement he shows in his other studies. He does not have the same interest in Toklas as in Capote, and he does not pretend to. Rather than follow a character's progress and transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas, alone and aging...
Then it's on to New York, where the Yankees, winners of the first half, provide stiff opposition for our split-season sensations. But the Yankees haven't played baseball -- real baseball -- since June. That was three months, one manager and two pennant races ago. Let's pretend they are outclassed by Bobby Ojeda and Bruce Hurst, the heroes of Boston's second half, and lose in four games...
Next stop, Oakland (or Kansas City or Minnesota...), home of the American League West's designated champion. The scheduled three-of-five series for the American League championship. Let's look back to 1975. Let's pretend...
...Elevens and the Hickory Farms--both big telethon friends--where you can find: dirty magazines in a rack by the window; a few objectionable apples; milk and bread; a bored high school kid behind the counter; and lots and lots of cigarettes and diet soda. And people have to pretend to love it, because there isn't any choice. "I'm out to change the corporate image," Lewis informs us early on. "They get a dirty deal... They're always doing things to help people." And people--the same people who voted for Ronald Reagan and now smile...
...wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly from negatives, the exhibition does not pretend to present high points of the photographer's art, nor does it fall to the level of collector's kitsch: these signed likenesses are not commemorative whisky bottles or glass power-line insulators. Instead, the collection allows the viewer briefly to inhabit a delightful interim area of popular history...