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...sheaf of related stories called The Lost World (boyhood is what has been lost) gives a nicely measured picture of a kindly, weighty father and a narrator-son who has not yet achieved gravitas. But the entirely adult stunner of an otherwise boyish book is a superb story called Smoke, about a failing baseball pitcher who attends the funeral of a teammate. We don't learn why the teammate died, or why the pitcher has lost his stuff, his smoke. All that matters is the single word with which the pitcher answers two terrible questions. The first is asked...
...classified as "probable human carcinogens" alongside such notorious chemical toxins as PCBs, formaldehyde and dioxin. The recommendation, which could have set off a costly chain of regulatory actions, was deleted from the final draft after review by the White House Office of Policy Development. "The EPA thing is a stunner," says Paul Brodeur, a writer for the New Yorker. "It's a clear case of suppression and politicization of a major health issue by the White House...
...have the bucks grown. The National Football League's new pact, approved a week ago, is a stunner even by the rapidly inflating standards of the medium: $3.6 billion, divvied up among five broadcast and cable networks, to bring every touchdown pass and holding penalty into American homes for the next four years. It is the biggest TV sports deal ever negotiated...
Thanksgiving starts the glut of year-end films: an all-star Steel Magnolias, a ponderous Valmont, a shaggy-dog story and one certified stunner, Disney's fairy-tale cartoon The Little Mermaid...
...preparations are under way to handle the traffic. Gardeners spruce up the lavish Christmas decorations, guards sip coffee, and guides tug at their jackets as the first visitors ascend the curving drive. Ready, Teddy -- it's show time at Graceland, and Elvis Presley, who knew how to stage a stunner, would have loved every lucrative, down-home, star-spangled minute...