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Where will it all end? The various threads throughout the plot start to pull and tear. The evidence presented is too dense to toss away. We have three characters meeting--Lily and Skinner's drinking and dancing, the tension between Michael and Skinner...
...more of what Cheever has done well for years. His Sentences remain gently illuminated gems of language, uncomplicated by any wordplay and unfailingly rhythmic. He controls the pace masterfully, whether guiding the action over a cascade of toxic wastes or through a freshet of afternoon passion. And he can toss in a wisecrack at any moment. Running into his friend Eduardo the elevator man sometime subsequent to their tryst. Sears remarks. "We've got to find something else we can do together...Do you like to fish' Would you like to go fishing...
...released without bail, to stay overnight in his home with him and his girlfriend. Now Friess has touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip approach piqued the district attorney. But the judge would not budge...
What happened? "There were a lot of complaints that officials were not performing the toss-up technique very well," Bruce Howard of the NCAA explains. Not only that, adds NCAA rules committee secretary Ed Steitz, "some people felt the jump ball played right into the hands of the teams with seven footers, the 7-foot-2 players...
...videotape machine. Maybe you don't even live in one of the estimated 22 million households wired for cable. Does that mean you have to be silent while everyone else natters on with lofty ideas about the "video revolution"? Absolutely not! Herewith a few handy statistics to toss into all the heady talk. Just two hints for beginners: never speak of Betamaxes (that's not a generic term, it's a Sony product name); and never call those dandy $1,000 gizmos videotape machines. They are VCRs, and never mind what the initials stand...