Word: ruth
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...When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch. Fortunately for the ballplayer, a team of oxen belonging to young Willard's dad was on hand to pull his car out of trouble. Hall, a sportswriter whose day job is penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then...
...Citizen Ruth and Sling Blade are directorial debuts with regional roots (Omaha, Nebraska, and Benton, Arkansas). And both feature star turns with a twist: Burt Reynolds as an Operation Rescue-style evangelist, John Ritter as a gay, discount-store manager. But these films have more serious novelties to offer. Citizen Ruth is, lo and behold, a political satire, and Sling Blade has the richness of a fine Southern Gothic novel...
...Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern) has four kids she hardly ever sees and dozens of convictions for snorting paint thinner. Now she is pregnant again, and an exasperated judge has told her to get an abortion or go to jail. That's enough to make Ruth a human placard for rival zanies: a band of pro-lifers called the Baby Savers (led by Reynolds) and a cell of pro-choice lesbians (Swoosie Kurtz and Kelly Preston). You can expect the competing passions to cancel one another out. And you can count on Stoops to conquer...
When you think of people who have really revolutionized their sports, certain names come up. Babe Ruth, Wilt Chamberlain, Muhammed Ali, Jackie Robinson, Arnold Palmer, Bob by Orr.... The list goes on, and other people would certainly throw in other names, but that is not important...
Oprah's third selection, announced last week, is Jane Hamilton's 1989 novel, The Book of Ruth, a stark, hardscrabble account of the life of a farm woman. The book has sold 8,000 copies in hardback and an additional 85,000 in paper, but the publishers are gearing up for what they hope is the inevitable demand: Houghton Mifflin has printed 50,000 new hardcovers, and Doubleday, which controls paperback rights, has ordered a new press...