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Fitzpatrick returns to the family ranch after a stint as a NATO tank captain patroling the Berlin Wall. Borders are just as tense back home. His cantankerous grandfather goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...
...Sorich had a problem yesterday afternoon, it was control. The southpaw gave up six walks in his eight-inning stint but managed to keep any of them from scorng. In the eighth, with one out and a man on first. Sorich used a nitty pick-off move to catch Crusader John Gross leaning toward second...
Crimson hurler Ellen Jakovic had trouble finding the strike zone all afternoon, but her less-than-masterful, two-hit, four-inning stint translated into her second win in three outings and evened her team's season mark...
Cocksure and with a track record of travel that includes a stint in the Peace Corps. Paul Theroux, too, has styled himself in the mold of those American writers who demand consideration of their contribution to the literature of travel. He writes about the world as if a were a marvelously crafted gadget to be pulled apart and played with, something wondrous in all its aspects yet entirely susceptible to the grasp of his imagination...
...Paul Chamber Orchestra but left in 1980 to direct the Stuttgart Opera in Germany. James Conlon, 32, recently was named music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic-succeeding Zinman, who spent much of his early career in The Netherlands. Michael Tilson Thomas, 37, after an eight-year stint as the Buffalo Philharmonic's music director, now spends his time guest conducting both here and abroad. Perhaps the most successful of all the young Americans is James Levine, 38, who holds the powerful job of music director at the Metropolitan Opera. In demand throughout the classical spectrum, Levine has emphasized...