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Four plays and five yards later, Lynch connected for the winning field goal, but a paragraph before, our story went sour. Bob McDermott was killed in a tragic fire last summer. Another teammate, Andy Puopolo, died a month after he was fatally injured in a November '76 Combat Zone knifing incident...
...ninety-year-old french fry"), and a pair of good-ole-boy screenwriters from Texas provide boisterous comic relief. McMurtry, who knows the Hollywood milieu firsthand, reveals a nice sense of place and trade. The celluloid scene has been done before; what McMurtry gives it-as he gave that sour Texas town in his The Last Picture Show-is a sense that even the meanest lives deserve a measure of compassion...
...very special guest is allowed to break open the potterized poultry with a golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter as "tree rat," provoking preprandial nausea among several F.F.s...
...because so many of Cheever's characters are commuters. A good many others are suddenly discomfited by journeys of the body or spirit that they had not meant to take. In The Seaside Houses, a husband takes his family to the beach for the summer and begins sensing sour emanations from his rented house; before he realizes why, his marriage of twelve years is over. In The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, a man with money troubles is appalled to find himself burgling his wealthy neighbors and friends...
...suitable ending for Jackson's perfect night at the plate (3 for 3, two walks). His only sour moment came in the seventh, when he got picked off second base while trying to get a good jump on a missed bunt by Chris Chambliss...