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Marino started Miami's comeback, going 5-for-5 in a 69-yard drive and hitting a diving Troy Drayton with a 2-yard touchdown pass on third down. Drayton caught a break from the officials, because a television replay showed he didn't have control of the ball when he landed in the end zone...
Floating's strongest moments come in the opening and closing of the novel. Troy reaches out to capture her audience early, sending the reader quickly backward through layers of time and shifting smoothly and non-sequentially from one character to the next until the reader has become deeply familiar with each...
...most part, Troy is engaging and effective. Her imagery infuses Floating with energy and immediacy, bringing the desires and heart-wrenching dilemmas of her characters a sickening sense of reality. Whatever her other characteristics, Ruby is true to life in that she cannot be separated from her history and her responsibilities. She cannot simply find her true love, ride off into the sunset, and live happily ever after, not because she is uncommonly weak, but because she is uncommonly real. In the closing scene of the novel, Ruby is forced to chose between leaving with her husband's brother...
...Each of Troy's characters has flaws, and each makes mistakes, but their flaws and mistakes, however destructive, are human. The characters, therefore, are all sympathetic, representing the different sides of a sticky triangle that most of us have probably had to face, in one form or another, from more than one point of view...
...Nobel Award for Safety Engineering went to Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ont., for "developing and personallytesting a suit of armor impervious to grizzlybears...