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Whether that criticism holds water is debatable, but the fact remains that Media was one tick off a track record an one length behind Foolish Pleasure at the end of the fourth race of his life...
...Goalie Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers, whose very special, harrowing job is examined as part of a long look at the often violent world of professional hockey. "The idea," says Taubman, "is to get behind that fiber-glass mask and find out what makes a man like Bernie tick...
...week, as Rockefeller withstood the most intense interrogation of his career, covering almost every possible substantive issue and personal idiosyncrasy. Fresh from its impeachment triumph, the committee was plainly determined to outdo its Senate counterpart, the Rules Committee, in dissecting the Rockefeller persona and finding out what makes it tick. Rockefeller, on the other hand, was no less concerned with clearing his name of any hint of scandal or conflict of interest. It was a rigorous confrontation of intellect and ideology in which, in a way, both sides emerged as winners...
...author can jump. The Consumer Bulletin Annual, for instance, hardly seems a bouncy platform for whimsy. Yet Barthelme somersaults from it into the tale of a hapless soul whose purchases consistently turn out to be substandard. "Consider the case of the bedside clock. 'Check for loudness of tick,' the Annual said. I checked. It ticked. Tick seemed decorous. Once installed in home, it boomed like...
Such stuff we expect to find in front page news. Sports pages, we protest, are reserved for such weighty matters as tabulations of shots-on-goal, comparisons of probable starting pitchers, or analyses of what makes the star athlete tick. When inflation, taxes and homicides weigh too heavily on the reader's mind, sports provide relief...