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...often so heavy and cumbersome that it is hard to see what advantage they offer over the oiled linen cape. Pieces of leather or waxed cotton are tightly stretched over a spokelike array of rattan or whalebone ribs; the ribs are attached by wires and hinges to a central rod so that the covering can be opened out or collapsed at will. It rarely works as planned. The ribs often lose elasticity when wet and crack when dried...
...come over to my house on weekends, and we would watch a horror movie on the GE television my great-grandmother had given me when I was eight. Once, when the channel selector knob on my parents' TV broke off, I used a pair of pliers to turn the rod around, proudly telling my folks what network they were watching as I recognized each show. I was five at the time...
...first home run. With that an annoyed patron released a live piglet onto the field. But then Lefthander May, who was born in Coffeyville, Kans., and once went to a psychiatrist to cure his pitching woes, wound up and delivered a high, tight "moving" fastball to the Twins' Rod Carew, who was born in Panama on a train. Carew, who hits a baseball more consistently, though not farther, than any man alive, swung ineffectually and grounded out, and the day soon righted itself for the home team...
...been fishing for four years," Thomson said. "I was given a fly rod as a high school graduation present. I took off, and I loved...
...initial purpose of the club--becoming the best rod wielders since Queequeg and Tashtego--Thomson says, "We're appealing to those who feel that they have time for fly-fishing. We don't feel obliged to teach unless you have a real commitment...