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...scarcely stirred from the position he staked nearly 23 major league seasons, almost 4,192 hits, ago. The brush-cut hair that blew to bangs and billowed to bouffant has been tamed and dyed. The kneesprung crouch has lost barely a trace of temper. The burly body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat and breaststrokes like a gopher into second base...
...volumes by Leonard, MacDonald and Robert B. Parker at the peak of their form, and cunning British psychological thrillers by Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Ruth Rendell and the American would-be Briton Martha Grimes. The fall has brought a fresh crop, mostly from other hands. The styles range from taut police procedurals to literary romps, from old-fashioned puzzles to breezily constructed thrillers. These days the detective may be a policeman, a private eye or a blueblood amateur, as of old. The detective may also be a prying journalist, a homosexual, a woman or an eight-year-old boy. Among...
...inevitable encounter in a John Boorman film: a man of the world and a nature boy face each other through the rushing curtain of a waterfall. The man, with machine gun poised to fire, represents civilization and its discontents; the boy, his bow and arrow taut, seems very much the noble savage painted in jungle pastels. In Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic and Excalibur, Boorman set these same elemental antagonists, intellect and instinct, on a collision course. Here, though, he has added a crucial twist. Tomme (Charley Boorman) is the man's son, abducted by a Brazilian Indian tribe...
While the family-dramedy aspect of the movie largely succeeds, the children-in-peril element introduced by the thief often falls flat. The sections in which he tracks down Damien and Anthony seem to aspire to the taut suspense of Boyle’s previous films, but hampered by the family-friendly PG rating, they are generally muddled and jarringly different in tone...
...ensure that Iraqi insurgents would have no opening to attack. "I'm kind of a timid person, but when I got behind the wheel, it was balls to the wall," she says. The Air Force first lieutenant had chiseled her body with bench presses and squats into a taut 145 lbs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame. "I had a workout log and a food journal where I'd write down what I ate--protein shake for breakfast, two Doritos, three breath mints, baked fish and green beans. That's it," she says, laughing, then grimacing. "I wish...