Word: schaap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Menichella (H) 2:00.53; 500-yd. freestyle--1. Bobby Hackett (H) 4:31.93, 2. Tim Maximoff (H) 4:35.94, 3. Elzerman (N) 4:40.87; 200-yd. breaststroke--1. Pat Jakobsen (H) 2:16.54, 2. Hond (N) 2:16.56; 400-yd. Freestyle Relay 1. Holland (F. Vollerbergh, Kesteren, R. Schaap, H. Elzerman...
...Dutch team also features sprint freestyler Remmie Schaap, breaststroker Ronald Hond, the team's only non-teenager, and distance freestyler Gerard Smit...
Considering the competition, then, Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap have not committed any grievous sins in writing .44, a novelized account of Berkowitz's 14-month killing spree. But they haven't done much of a service, either: the book reads more like a dime-store cheapie than a presumably classy $10 hardback, and what goes between those hard covers is enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when the Papal Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed...
...writer, no matter what his topic; a tough, grown-up Irish-American punk, he has a street-corner sense of humor and a sharp ear for dialogue, and his characterizations of middle-class New Yorkers seem to have stepped straight out of the subway. Even in dubious collaboration with Schaap--a sportswriter whose previous literary accomplishments, if that is the work for them, include a bunch of as-told-to locker-room memoirs--Breslin manages to sneak through some of the ironic wit and compassion that for years have made him the hero of the straphangers who read his daily...
...midst of a horror he cannot understand, and the ice of a relentless chronicler of the evils of modern times. But these passages, sadly, don't sell as many copies as the blood-and-guts, psycho-killer-on-the-loose scenes--a fact of which Breslin and Schaap have obviously been apprised...