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...tremendous, such a thrill to be at the national tournament," St. Louis said. "It's funny too, because when I was there I really felt that we should have won. Now I'm really proud that we got third place. It's something special that I'll remember all my life...
...reader is left with a runaway novel that leads to a stale, purposeless conclusion. King's recent books (The Dead Zone, The Stand) have not been up to the level of Carrie, the tight, well-paced drama that gave him his first major success; in Firestarter, an overpriced cheap thrill that becomes an exercise in endurance, King re-tills painfully familiar soil but grows no new shoots...
...miscues and misfortune that these books portray, they nonetheless inspire elation, the thrill of watching craftsmen work with words. Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained. Roth describes himself as a child with "one foot in col lege, the other in the Catskills," and the Borscht Belt routine is what his first-person narrators constantly imitate, no matter how much they want to sound like Chekhov or Henry James. Elkin's characters are prone to bursts of speechmaking, and their creator...
...Schmidt enjoyed the opposite fate. In the thrill-an-inning playoffs against Houston, he had been the goat, hitting .208 (five hits in 24 at-bats) and striking out twice with the bases loaded in the final game. The Major League home-run leader during the regular sea son with 48, he regained his touch during the World Series, hitting .381, bashing two homers and driving in the winning run in two of the Phillies' four victories. That resurrection led Schmidt to mystical ruminations: ";It was destined for us to win this thing. We overcame too many obstacles, came...
...created a nerve-tingling celluloid magic show. Rush is a master of the infinite details of the surface, the colored smokes of movie-making, the actual play of images on the acetate. The wholly superficial brilliance of Rush's direction is enough to make The Stunt Man a rare thrill...