Word: smiley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eerie sensation to read Jane Smiley's prankish new novel, set in pre-Civil War Kansas, after campaigning with the fiery abolitionist John Brown through the same time and terrain in Russell Banks' thunderous epic Cloudsplitter. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf; 448 pages; $26) follows Lidie, a sturdy young Illinois bride, to the dust-blown outpost of Lawrence, Kans., in the tumultuous year of 1855. Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown...
...filleting of the Florida Marlins began yesterday as the world champions traded a $5 million a year contract in the person of outfielder Moises Alou to the Houston Astros for two minor league pitchers who will work for considerably less. Owner Wayne Huizenga and Don Smiley, who heads a group trying to buy the team, have pledged to slice the Marlins payroll to a lean $20 million. Enjoy that trophy, Marlins fans ? its the last bit of hardware you'll see in South Florida for a while...
...with high-priced talent and watching it capture a World Series title after only five years in existence, is selling the Fish. The interested party is reportedly an ownership group that includes a sizable Hispanic contingent ? an important selling point in South Florida ? headed by current team president Don Smiley...
...Smiley says he is two-thirds of the way toward reaching Huizenga's asking price, which is believed to be $150 million. Huizenga says he has 30 days to stump up the cash. If successful, the new owners' next order of business will be securing that public-financed, retractable-roof ballpark on the Miami waterfront...
...Stadium or no, for a few years at least Smiley may feel he's bought himself a Florida lemon ? no manager, no superstars, no farm system. But just wait until Castro dies...