Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue Peanasonic Sport like with an estimated value of $100, was stolen from a rack in front of Cabot House between Wednesday, April 17, and Friday, April 19. The owner had secured the bike to the rack...
...Flaubert criticism. "Louise Colet's Version" is an imaginary reconstruction of the opinions of Louise Colet, to whom Flaubert wrote his greatest love letters, but whose replies are unfortunately lost forever. In "Braithwalie's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas," he indulges in a latter-day variant of Flaubert's favorite sport, bourgeois-bashing. And the penultimate chapter. "Examination Paper," is just that. This is all great fun, scholarship that's playful, clever, and not without a certain profundity to boot...
...also a great time for the popular sport of bargain hunting, even when some bargains turn out to be extravagantly expensive. Says Frank Drewitt, managing director of Harrods of London: "An American couple flew in on the Concorde one evening, bought some fine luggage and a fur coat the next day, and flew back home on the Concorde that evening...
...Rick Burleson and Cecil Cooper--which struggled to avoid last place. Gammons then traces the years between these two poles discussing in minute detail the course of each season, from both an athletic and business perspective. The argument is an important one; the free agent system has changed the sport from an owner- to a player-dominated enterprise. When a player doesn't feel a team is paying him as much as it should, he leaves, thus destroying the regional flavor of the sport. Gammons believes that the identification that each major league city once had with its ballplayers...
...problem with writing a baseball book is that so many good ones have already been written. Gammons' policy of romanticizing the sport, his striving to provide a sense of the special impact it has upon players and New England communities is not appreciated because Roger Angell has already done it all before, and done it much better besides. True, the New Yorker writer-whose essays do make splendid books--has the advance of observing all twenty six teams, but ever, Angell's portrayal of the Red Sox his discussions of New England's affection for its team has the touch...