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...Magnuson's bridgework gleams in a smile of childlike innocence, and bromides fall from his lips like gentle rain. On the ice, beware. The angelic face twists into a toothless snarl, while the bromides give way to threats of mayhem. Magnuson is a "policeman," a player whose job it is to keep the other team in line. Other than football, no team sport puts a greater premium on bodily contact than hockey-the crunching board check, the elbow-flailing combat for the puck behind the net, the boiling free-for-all over real or imagined irregularities...
...certainly a one-man music factory with a rich bag of assorted talents. He plays piano with the urbane primitivism of a Glenn Gould thumping out variations on rock 'n' roll's Jerry Lee Lewis. His singing style ranges from a Mick Jagger snarl to a delicate, insinuating plaint that recalls Jose Feliciano. As a composer, John has already turned out more than a dozen of the year's best songs-in styles that include country rock, country blues, just plain country, gospel, soft rock and classical rock...
Tough-talking, cigar-chomping General Curtis LeMay used to snarl at Washington: "I hate it. It's a woman's town." At its heart, of course, no city could be more male. It is the epicenter where, in the world's most powerful nation, men take part in the supreme rituals of power. The millions of lives and billions of dollars manipulated each day in the White House and the Capitol and the Pentagon are counters in the most stimulating game there...
Like many other brokerages, Goodbody was shakily capitalized. About half of its capital, now down to about $10 million, consisted of loans advanced by partners and other investors for 90 days at a time. Its record keeping got into a horrendous snarl. By mid-October an exchange-ordered audit disclosed that Goodbody held some $10 million in stock that was not even entered on its books-while another $10 million of stock that was recorded on the books could not be found. Operating losses this year totaled $8 million by the end of September, and partners and other lenders began...
...encounter with a singing lady dentist who plants a radio transmitter in his incisor and calls him up when she hears him eating a forbidden bagel ("Lock Lips-Monkey-shines in the Bridgework"). Very rarely does he have any real satiric intentions. In one piece, though, "Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella," there is a hint of very good-natured satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers by accident that it is all the work of a company called...