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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles, who arrived in a gray Rolls Royce at 7:45 p.m. with a motorcade of Boston police cars and motorcycles, was taken to the Kirkland Street entrance of Memorial Hall, out of sight of the waiting public...
...Smith & Wesson revolver with which Hemingway's father had just killed himself. Hemingway dropped the pistol into a deep lake in Wyoming "and saw it go down making bubbles until it was just as big as a watch charm in that clear water, and then it was out of sight...
...talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion from Hoboken, N.J., to Binghamton, N.Y. Hitched to the train was the Clover Colony, a perfectly restored Pullman. Thorpe had a couple of whiskey sours while watching the Delaware Water Gap recede from the car's veranda. "It was a soul-stirring sight," he says. The next year he bought the Hampton Roads, a car with two staterooms, observation room, kitchen pantry and crew's quarters. He sold it last year, but missed it so much that he bought another much like it, and now owns five other cars, including a Union Pacific...
...hard to tell at such moments whether Updike is parading knowledge or satirizing it. Roger's Version may be a novel that only the author's most faithful followers will love at first sight. Newcomers might be advised to start with Rabbit or Bech before tackling this dazzling and sometimes maddening display of talent and erudition: the labor of a serious artist to make comprehensible a mystery that cannot be explained...
...days later McEnroe failed to show up for a pre-tournament press conference; his father filled in for him. The next day McEnroe, working out with Jimmy Connors on a practice court, caught sight of British Photographer Tommy Hindley, who had tussled with him in the past. McEnroe let loose a couple of close-range volleys, one of which hit the photographer in the thigh, and, said Hindley, threatened to put the next one between his eyes...