Word: ruth
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Though it is not explicitly acknowledged, this torment seems to have been the inspiration for A Map of the World (Doubleday; 390 pages; $22), a mischievous and unsettling marital melodrama by Jane Hamilton, whose first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. Hamilton introduces us to Alice and Howard Goodwin, a handsome Wisconsin couple -- she a school nurse, he a dairy farmer -- who are the parents of two little girls and who could be exhibited at the state fair in the perfect-marriage pavilion...
...BALL, STUPID. In a Costa Rican sweatshop, peons are making sure that the Rawlings baseballs they stitch together for the major leagues are wrapped tight, giving them extra flight potential and allowing the Mariners' Griffey to obliterate home-run records set by two imperialist Yankees, Babe Ruth (60 in 1927) and Roger Maris (61 in '61). Anyway, that's one conspiracy theory. Many pitchers and some batters believe the ball has been spiked, but Rawlings says its tests indicate no change. "The ball isn't juiced," says Griffey. But does he have a better idea of what's going...
...paint becomes a headlong road movie, analogous to Jack Kerouac's writing (though without its hectoring blither) or the photographs of De Kooning's friend Robert Frank. See America now! And you do -- in abstraction; you feel its rush and tonic vitality in the toppling blue strokes of Ruth's Zowie, 1957, which echo Franz Kline's big-girder structures but move them into a pastoral context...
...judicial personality, composed of subtle valences of thought on a thousand topics, in a room where everyone knows the issues and everyone has opinions. A freshman not up to speed on most of those issues will project a sketchy profile. This may account for the different impressions made by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas, the court's newest arrivals. The extroversion of Ginsburg, an enthusiastic dancer at parties, has been heartily reflected in her courtroom demeanor -- sometimes to the annoyance of her colleagues. On her first day on the bench last October, she asked a lot of questions...
...Judge Stephen Breyer to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. Breyer, a former chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, drew immediate praise from key Republicans and Democrats in the Senate for his brilliance, moderation and consensus-building skills. He was passed over last time in favor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg...