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...roommate happens to be named Leslie (Wayne Snodgrass). After years of cheating the government out of money that, "they didn't deserve anyway," Jon is warned of an impending audit. Apparently, Leslie correctly listed his sex as male before moving in with Jon. And, IRS inspector Floyd Spinner (Mark H. Levine) is sent out to their apartment to investigate. The rest of the play is loosely based on what happens when Leslie dresses up in drag to avoid a jail sentence for perjuring on an IRS form...
...when Calvin Coolidge went fishing under Albright's eye in the Firehole River, the President let a park ranger take some of the lead weights off his line so the spinner would work better. Some time later, the ranger suggested adding weight and reached for new sinkers in Coolidge's tackle box. Rasped the parsimonious Coolidge: "What did you do with those two pieces of lead you took off the line the other day and put in your pocket...
Leave it to Benjamin Franklin, that protean spinner of projects, to publish the first foreign-language newspaper in America. The year was 1732; the paper, called the Philadelphia Zeitung, was aimed at the city's burgeoning German population. As the decades rolled by, the growth and variety of the immigrant press mirrored the flow of the immigrants themselves. By the early 1900s, when the boatloads of newcomers reached their peak, some 1,300 foreign- language newspapers and magazines were being published in the U.S. New York City alone boasted a cacophony of 32 dailies, including ten in German, five...
...Mary Slaney now, wed the first day of the year to bulbous Richard Slaney, a British discus spinner. Last week she closed her indoor season unluckily with a pulled calf muscle, but in three races she collected another world record, her 16th. She runs like Mercury. "Some day I want to be a mother and do normal things," she says, "but for now I just want to get better, better and better. If the Olympics did anything for me, it renewed that desire." Her winter has been eventful. Several days after the fact was only casually reported to Oregon police...
...Hoffman's large cast and its machinations remain credible and, even in the comic passages, are never overdrawn. But the author is more than an adroit tale spinner; it is character, not accident or circumstance, that brings his central figures to grief. In the process, he merges Chicago myth, legend and history with poignant private truth. This journalist, at least, had not only a novel but a genuine novelist...