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...Aussies refer to Conner as "Big Bad Dennis," but they regard him as a larrikin. In their singular idiom, a larrikin is someone with a highly developed sense of fun and mischief who is continuously in trouble and eternally forgiven. "I'm a larrikin?" Conner says. He likes that. In a perverse way, he has become an Australian hero, and there is an impression in Freo that even at their own expense, the Australians are ready to warm him with a chorus of "good on yer." Picturing the town without Cup or customers is a little sad, though. In Fremantle...
...singular type to be understood in different ways by different people--like "a glass apple." This is the novel where Roth puts it all together and resolves the tension in his life that probably led him to write in the first place...
...Sunkist Fiesta Bowl, not to be confused with the John Hancock Sun Bowl, paid No. 2 Penn State and No. 1 Miami $4.8 million to have it out like men at Tempe, Ariz., in prime time. They did, and the singular game they played, which came down to a final pass in the shadow of the goal line, shocked college football's tired old system like a giant anabolic steroid. Miami was the shockee...
...long, low winery is somewhat reminiscent, in fact, of the Japanese Arata Isozaki's work. Isozaki's first major commission in the U.S., the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, evokes a dreamy pre-Columbian (or extraterrestrial) temple. The exterior is rich and singular: roughly cut red sandstone blocks, green aluminum panels, a barrel vault floating above the ; sidewalk. Inside, only the library, with its extraordinary white onyx window, is architecturally aggressive. The seven scrupulously conceived galleries are restrained, plain, deferential...
...center of this frenzied drama is Ronald Reagan. His presidency is at stake. Come to think of it, it is our presidency too. But that is often forgotten in this singular city, which is at once saddened by the spectacle of another wounded President and exhilarated by the pursuit and the adventure of what amounts to a duel to the death on the nightly news...