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...timer? He is the Cro-Magnon man. Going into last weekend, he needed 20 more hits before he would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named...
...player voted in at the 1936 start. The battle of self-destruction and will began back in rural Georgia, when the teenage hunter accidentally shot himself with a .22 rifle. The bullet lodged in the vicinity of his clavicle and remained there for the rest of his life. Tyrus Raymond Cobb's father, W.H., a school commissioner, thought of his son as a potential doctor or lawyer. As Professor Cobb saw it, baseball players were drunken, wenching, low-salaried louts. He relented when Ty refused to go to college, but the old man warned him, "Don't come home...
...lately has made a compelling case for the Soviet Union as a Utopia of artistic freedom. But White Nights sails giddily over political realities like the farm animals in a Chagall landscape. When Kolya Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is "welcomed back" by the KGB, he is put in the custody of Raymond Greenwood (Gregory Hines), a black tap dancer who defected from the U.S. after Viet Nam. Poor Raymond is a neurotic mess; glamorous Kolya has the nimble tread of melancholic star quality. Raymond agonizes about his family back home; Kolya never visits or mentions the family he must have left stranded...
...another country." Londoners and regular tourists had to wait in line as lawyers festooned in white name tags filled restaurants, pubs and tour sites that A.B.A. members had booked long in advance. Popular West End productions such as Cats and Starlight Express were sold out, and reservations soared at Raymond's Revue Bar, a burlesque house whose newspaper ads promised A.B.A. lawyers "the greatest erotic entertainment in London." Tourism officials estimated that the visiting attorneys would spend $40 million on their six-day visit...
Frederick Barthelme's third book is a textbook example of what has come to be called minimalist fiction. It does not follow that Tracer is better than the best works by Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Mary Robison or Frederick's older brother Donald. They are among the most prominent writers who have experimented in various ways with the notion that in storytelling, less is both more and positively too much. But those who are curious about what the minimalists are up or down to can learn a lot by starting right here...