Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a 188-game season of startling upsets and comebacks, a couple of semi-Cinderella teams stumbled into the 1971 Super Bowl. Both the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys have been prime contenders for the championship game since it began in 1967. The Colts reached it once-only to lose; Dallas, despite innumerable preseason predictions that the puissant Cowboys were certain winners, never made it at all. In this Sunday's encounter in Miami, both teams will be less concerned with replenishing their bank accounts (each player on the winning team will receive $15,000) than with banishing...
...made Diary of a Mad Housewife into a good deal more than a mere fleshed-out case study for advocates of Women's Liberation. Carrie Snodgrass, as the harassed housewife nagged to distraction by her socially-climbing husband (Richard Benjamin), makes a token rebellion in her affair with a semi-famous writer who turns out to be equally odious. They are horrible not only because they are men but because they are horrible. Snodgrass is sensitive and put-upon because she is telling the story, but even in objective terms she is clearly the good...
Ring of Truth. Peeling off the surgical mask, Nolen reveals the semi-deity behind it as a bundle of human wiles and failings. In passages that entertain as well as shock, he tells how he and his colleagues frightened patients' families into giving blood-not to save their loved ones, but to fill the bank for others. He explains why so few patients were recorded as having died on the operating table: to avoid paper work, the doctors quietly sewed up the corpses and let them "die" after surgery...
...decision to leave was triggered by a birthday. "I had my 50th birthday three months ago−but not without trauma," he confessed. "I realized I have many projects I want to get to, writing books and some semi-autobiographical essays. I want to work in my own framework, make my garden grow...
...Erie Canal (Doubleday, $4.50) is the 30th book by Peter Spier, a Dutch-born, academy-trained artist whose illustrations are to most juvenile scenery what a Tiepolo ceiling is to a hand-decorated pup tent. Too many children's books present lumpily massive, poster-hued semi-primitive drawings that intrigue for only one or two cheerful skim-throughs. Spier, by contrast, spends months accumulating visual research and folios of tiny sketches for his subjects. When he shows the 19th century harbor of Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge...