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...year. After the U.S.F.L. announced it would suspend play next season, Walker dropped to third or fourth on the pay scale by signing a reported five-year, $5 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys of the rival National Football League. Nonetheless, "to get to play in a Cowboys uniform and in Texas is a great honor for me," he said at a news conference. But some of his new teammates were not so happy, notably the veteran running back Tony Dorsett. "To bring someone in here who hasn't contributed a yard and to pay him twice what they...
tionists do not die; they are "promoted to glory." Burrows also has no intention of dropping the group's paramilitary uniforms, which vary from country to country. "Some people say the uniform is a Victorian appendage, but it is part of our awareness of being a militant church," says Burrows...
Well, maybe. But when Becky Anderson, 20, an attractive brunet carpenter from Bowling Green, Ohio, swings into battle at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., she wears the uniform of the 10th Virginia Regiment, Wayne's Corps of Light Infantry, carries a musket and is addressed as Nathaniel. Her parents took her to re-enactments when she was 14, but "as a girl you had to wear dresses and sit around the campfire cooking. I didn't like that...
...script called for Anderson, Farmer and the other colonials to lose, and they did (at Greenfield Village, the Americans win on Sundays). But casualties were unusually light. Did an afternoon downpour have anything to do with this? Yes, admitted an insider. Authenticity is fine, but getting your uniform clean again is pure hell after you have expired for your country on muddy ground...
This will not do. Horowitz wears tails, Roger Clemens a Red Sox uniform, and thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees...