Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most good letters." Cheever's letters are crammed with everyday details, although such information does not shed much new light on his fiction, which was luminous enough to begin with. To learn more about Cheever is to take a refresher course in the pleasure of his company. He could toss off a letter that made even a motel remarkable: "The furniture was of no discernible period or inspiration and I think if you studied the dressing- table long enough you might go insane." Cheever's correspondence, as selected, edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, amounts to an entirely...
...Upon publication," the publicity blurb wretchedly announces, "Edward Abbey will tour the following cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco . . . New York and Washington." Why wretchedly? Because Abbey loyalists don't like to imagine their prophet -- that grand old desert solitary, that North American champion of the ideological beer-can toss -- getting anywhere near Los Angeles, New York or those other evil megaburbs. Somebody might package his crankiness for distribution in health-food stores, or subject him to relentless understanding on public...
Lalich completed 11 of 19 passes for 119 yards, but Harvard's only passing TD came on a Gatto toss to Hornblower on the halfback option...
Dowling also threw for a pair of TDs in the first half, one to Hill at the start of the second quarter, and another to Del Marting midway through the period. Marting caught a Dowling toss for the two-point conversion following his touchdown to put the Elis ahead...
Senior swingman Tedd Evers chipped in 17 points for the Crimson, while junior guard Scott Gilly came off the bench to toss in nine points...