Word: shucksing
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Well, shucks. It's been a long time since we all bought our jeans blue and faded them on the hoof. Now mainstream fiction runs to my-divorce novels and the acid-washed prose of minimalism. Dreary stuff, which is why the old-time, down-home Robbins would be welcome...
What I saw was an aw-shucks style, enhanced by Babbit's drawl and the way he would summarize a complicated point by explaining exuberantly, "don't ya see..."
JOHN Ducey, as the hapless, would-be champ, is clearly the driving force behind the show. He plays Pendleton with a goofy, aw-shucks grin reminiscent of Warren Beatty's but adds the distinct nuance of a die-hard Bruins fan. Draped in a baggy sweatsuit and perpetually bouncing on...
Jose Canseco, 24, the 6-ft. 3-in., 230-lb. Cuban (who, Detroit wordsmith Sparky Anderson says, "is built like a Greek goddess") homered in all the other games and persisted in stealing bases too. His 40-40 distinction in those cross categories ought to combine with Hershiser's record...
Ever since the televised Kennedy-Nixon debates gave voters a sense of personal access to the candidates, charisma and charm have tended to overshadow all but the most transcendent election issues. But in an era of peace and at least a veneer of prosperity, the 1988 campaign has so far...