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Many businessmen have gone under after decades of success. I lost my home, career and pension. Unlike De Lorean, most of us started again from scratch without resorting to the drug trade...
...barrel has been with me some 20 years, but I haven't quite hit the bottom." Should he ever do so, he comforts himself with the thought that he could, a la Bech, "scratch along without writing another word. The literary world is thriving. There are a lot of people out there who want to look at a writer...
...somehow an illegal medication showed up in his pre-race tests, and Timely Writer had to scratch from the Jerome. He showed he needed the exercise at the Marlboro on Sept. 18, when he finished well behind upstart Lemhi Gold. But the fans could not resist backing Timely Writer in light of his past triumphs, and he went to the post the favorite...
Obviously the author wonders whether writing a book on the whole subject is absurd. What can the scratch of a pen accomplish when all the big bangs turn banal in the end? Sometimes he presses too hard. The ball of fire that appeared over Siberia in 1908 never quite finds its symbolic connection to his account of the Russian Revolution. A narrative on the ill-used Anabaptists begins so remotely that a reader gets lost in the preliminary spirals. At Friedrich's high level of risk, a measure of failure is unavoidable. But what would we do without this...
...bare numbers can't scratch the surface of the peculiar personality that made Weaver such a Baltimore--and national--institution. It's not that the Orioles won big, but that they won in such an emotionally satisfying way. Whether by the sterling defensive play, the properly executed cut-off throw, or the sublime curve on the outside corner, the Orioles nearly flawlessly performed the basic fundamentals that so flustered their competitors. They were a thinking-man's team in a thinking-man's game...