Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old man with a graying beard is playing baseball. Bill Lee is pitching and hitting home runs for some forsaken minor league team in front of 400 fans and loving every minute of it. Usually when former major leaguers return to the minors it is rather sad. They return to the long bus rides hoping to find the stuff that once put them in the limelight, but Lee isn't doing that. His arm is more or less shot, he hasn't pitched in the majors in over two years, and he has been effectively blackballed by front office...
...after this sad spectacle, any popular, experienced contender will keep away. Gary Hart knows a sinking ship when his spiritual advisor tells him he sees...
...sad but all too classic pattern. At one end of society are the rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
...readers' trust enough to try something radically new. Bombeck's readers have accepted a sharp departure in her latest book, Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession. Most of it is funny, the mixture of short pieces, one-liners and wry humor as usual, but there are several short, sad stories that have the quality of O. Henry's sentimental tales. One tells of a mother who died of cancer, leaving each of three sons a letter that began, "I always loved you best . . ." Among the most effective is the story of an old Jewish widow who chats happily...
...author is not entirely certain about the sad pieces. They work, yeah, but "anybody-anybody-can bring out your tears. That is a piece of cake. It is 20 times as easy-make that 50-to make people cry rather than laugh." People have problems, she says. Their kids are on drugs, they aren't getting along with each other. "Now you . . ."-she says to her listener-"say something funny...