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...Tome McLaughlin, for instance, is generally considered the more emotional and outspoken of the pair, at least during games. "Frankie's emotion is more inner," Tom says, "He's much more logical than I am. I can snap." Frank agrees: "He shows his anger a lot more. If I get upset I don't show it as much...I think it's silly to get upset...
...essence of biography is selectiveness; even the most uneventful lives contain enough to fill a library. In this case, the tendancy toward inclusiveness results in a 750-page tome which, we are assured on the dust jacket, is merely the first volume...
...made the works of a Swiss watch look haphazard. Three seasons later, the Trail Blazers had slipped into the second division, the bright hopes of dynasty ended. The parabola of the Trail Blazers is the stuff of tragedy. But Author David Halberstam (The Powers That Be) has produced a tome so heavy that he contracts what basketball insiders call "white man's disease": no leaping ability...
...topless beaches of the Côte d'Azur to back packing trails in the Alps, French vacationers last week were enjoying the final moments of their summer holidays. An uncommon number of them, including President François Mitterrand, seemed to have their noses buried in a book. The tome was France's latest rage, a 565-page edition of the apocalyptic predictions of Nostradamus, the Renaissance physician and astrologer. Noted the newsweekly Le Point in a cover story on the sudden French passion for bleak prophecies: "The man of this summer is not Mitterrand, but Nostradamus...
Even with such steps, he acknowledges, few more than the .0004 per cent Americans who currently live to 100, will do so after reading his tome. But using Georgakas' "longevity agenda," perhaps someday someone will challenge the world's all-time documented record of 113 years and 214 days, set by one Delina "Grandma" Filkins (1815-1928). As Georgakas rightly stresses, such an individual feat may be possible only when people mobilize to oppose the hazards to healthy life that self-interested Big Industry and self-serving Big Government pose today...