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Following a text-book drag bunt by Brain Ralph, junior first baseman Scott Parrot slugged a 375-foot triple to right center, evening the score...
Dealing with "blahness" and "meaninglessness" may not inspire some readers. The Buchanan passages do get weighty towards the end, especially when the narrative switches from rich texture to the beat of a bad text-book...
Brown came within one when freshman Andrea Boudreau stuck a loose puck in the back of the twines. Whyte looked like her old self, breaking away from everyone and beating Presbrey on a text-book backhand...
...blearily in morning classes, peering at a white expanse of notebook, the professor's voice floating invisibly above my bowed head. Immobile hours in front of black strings of print straightjacket my nerves. I walk out of the library dazed, moaning like a dead Boris Karloff, text-book scraps and computer paper fluttering from my mummified shell...
...more orthodox religious convictions, might find the plaintiffs' beliefs "inconsistent, illogical, incomprehensible, and unacceptable." But he also found the religious beliefs of a group of fundamentalist Christians in Tennessee to be "sincere"--that is, to warrant excusing the parents' children from having to read the local school system's text-book series...