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...until the middle of this century that the nature of that ecosystem was understood. The Everglades, it turns out, is not a swamp at all but a shallow, sheetlike river, about 50 miles wide, flowing almost imperceptibly from Okeechobee to the sea. It is a leisurely process, a self- perpetuating cycle in which clouds draw moisture from the slow-moving stream, blow north and then rain down on the lakes and rivers that drain into the Okeechobee and back to the Everglades...
Lottie's neurotic elder brother resumes an obsessive affair with Elizabeth, a shallow beauty Lottie continues to resent because of snubs in their high school years. Her 21-year-old son sleeps with Elizabeth's baby-sitter, then ignores her, and when she dies in an auto accident decreed by the author to get everyone's moping started, wonders fretfully whether he is obliged to attend her funeral. Other people behave shabbily, all of them, like Lottie, largely humorless and utterly self-absorbed. An occasional good line briefly clears the prevailing swamp gas, as when Lottie sums things...
...Cobb once said, "The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves." Fielding is a war that involves not just a simple nerve but an entire neural network. Should you make the pickoff move now? Should you play the line? Does the outfield play shallow? This war doesn't relent. Every decision you make has alternatives and your choice is easily proved wrong, depending upon variables ranging from the drop of the curveball the pitcher throws to the whims of the third-base coach...
...used at their last convention does not really advance the cause of family. Speakers such as Patrick Buchanan, who has allegedly made anti-gay and anti-Semitic comments, and Pat Robertson,, who carries the flag of the religious right, deflected the real issues. "Family values" were perceived as a shallow ploy to appeal to voters. The phrase became detached from its original meaning and was associated instead with homophobia and bigotry...
...walk and a sacrifice in the top of the thirteenth started BU's big inning. Terrier Kathy Harrison then hit a shallow fly to left with a runner on second...