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Mephisto, Lucifer, and Mister Scratch...
...beneficiary of all this talent is new coach Dave Fish, who succeeds Jack Barnaby. Barnaby was not only the most respected and winningest squash coach of all time, but rumor has it that he invented the game itself. Otherwise, Fish is starting from scratch...
...verbal non sequiturs, supposed articulations of existential anguish, are peppered with McKuenesque dilemmas. Someone tells of passing a friend on the street without trading any greeting--each of them feared the other had looked through instead of at him. Someone else describes a dinner party where she wanted to "scratch out the women's eyes" and "grab the men's balls"--a lame evocation of hostility made even more hokey by the gratuitous vulgarity. While couples copulate with increasing fervor and come, for what can only be a choreographic reason, together, a choral voice-over ludicrously intones the entire series...
...south of Atlanta, planted his mobile home on the ocher earth and moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part or lose it all"); his family has grown to include a three-month-old son and four daughters aged two to nine...
...staff, which will soon number 700 nationwide, is coordinated from the Atlanta headquarters (302 members) by Jordan, 31, who is waging his own anti-inflationary drive. To scratch up money to hire more people in the field, he has cut salaries by 10% (top pay is $1,800 a month). Jordan has also tightened procedures that...