Word: recapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most meaningful section of this rather lengthy book is the final three chapters. The 1981 season summary contains no recap of the season or the World Series--only a bitter diatribe against the strike. Another recounts an afternoon spent watching a Yale-St. Johns contest beside pre-World War I pitching hero Smokey Joe Wood. The final article covers the ups and downs of a once-great college pitcher bouncing around the minor leagues. These pieces, each moving by itself, make a strong statement together. The true fan, infected with an inherent love for baseball, has not abandoned the game...
...questions asked in some cases are a brief recap of those on a job application form. In others, they probe the subject's past, with the emphasis on theft. But sometimes they pry into more personal affairs. Testers reportedly used to ask job applicants at the Coors brewery about their sexual proclivities and how often they changed their underwear. According to Mike Tiner of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, queries about political, sexual and union matters are "definitely on the increase...
...Demetrius and Lisa Sloan's Helena wander about in a ghostly love-dance, with Helena reaching for and grasping Demetrius just as he turns away; after the night of illusion in the forest is over, and the lovers are rubbing the sleep and dreams from their eyes, they recap the confusions of their double-love-triangle in a whirlwind mime before running back to the city...