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...these stories would have to be funny. Keillor's humor consists chiefly of rank anachronism and clumsy juxtaposition: A Wild West cowboy buys a condo from a realtor; Dionysus hits 50, gets de-deified, and sees a therapist about his midlife crisis; Don Giovanni dispenses romantic advice from the Sportsman Bar, where he plays piano. Maybe these stories would be funnier if Keillor were telling them himself. Perhaps the humor of setting one story in a town called Piscacatawamaquoddy (and then referring to it by name much too often) lies in the delivery. On the page it does little more...
There is a growing breed of shopper in gun stores and on the shooting range that fits a very different profile from the traditional sportsman. More and more are women: Smith & Wesson reports that sales of its Lady Smith line of rosewood-grip guns doubled last year. That troubles Barbara Shaw, executive director of the Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence. "Women are being encouraged to buy guns to protect themselves," she observes. "That's the hardest argument to deal with because the fear can be very real. The gun can create an aura of control. But in reality...
Some part of the American psyche seems pleased to see the President as a sportsman who lives relatively well, occasionally with a hint of aristocratic idleness. The summer retreats of past Presidents have provided a setting where they could show themselves off in this light. John F. Kennedy went to Hyannis Port and sailed in all weathers; at his ranch in Texas (the Texas White House, as it was known), Lyndon Johnson hunted deer; Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging...
...TITLE: SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE...
...Sportsman's Paradise is set in the sleepy Long Island resort of Orient Point, which has been discovered by Southerners who have moved North. This time the heroine is a Collier herself, and she carries a torch for a moody chap named Hobby Fox. She thinks of him as a burnt-out case -- "courtly and windblown and stoic" -- but in his 36 years he has been a major-league ballplayer, a New Orleans prosecutor and the foreign editor of an important New York City newspaper. What story there is gradually reveals the couple's past affair and tells...