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These days, it seems, sports are too important to be left to sportswriters. The bestselling novelist and the professor of philosophy under consideration here are only the latest literati to suit up and trot onto the playing field, drop-kicking references to Homer, Hemingway and John "Rabbit" Updike as they...
...characterization, but his experience hasn't supplied the vocabulary for his mature vision. Two distinct styles of writing fall out in this loose weave of narrative and analytic musing; one of sardonic realism and another of patriotic camp. On one page, he describes Willis Reed pondering "how a rabbit does it," and on the following, he sums up the 1973 championship with the old saw, "Vicariously experiencing the victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit in Bradley's off-beat anecdotes. There is a contradiction...
Volkswagenwerk AG finally made it official last week: the supervisory board voted to buy a plant in the U.S. to make its fast-selling Rabbit model. The move was scarcely a surprise; VW has been talking about putting up a U.S. plant for years. Nor will the giant German automaker be the first foreign company to assemble cars in America-Sweden's Volvo has already started building a $100 million plant in Chesapeake, Va. Still, the formal decision illustrates how changes in currency values can transform world business patterns...
...streamlined its West German operations and replaced the legendary-but increasingly unexciting -Beetle with the faster, jauntier Rabbit (TIME, Feb. 2). Those measures boosted profits in Europe, but left Volkswagen with an almost insuperable problem in the U.S.: repeatedly the West German mark has jumped in value against the dollar, making VWs more expensive for American buyers. In 1970 the cheapest model sold for $1,839 in the U.S.; today it goes...
...realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...