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...erotic or pastoral turn can long allay the great sorrow of Irish history. Sometimes Heaney confronts it head on, as in "Requiem for the Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where "terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon." Even these acrimonious lines have not satisfied some Irish nationalists who criticize him for refusing to write anti-British broadsides. Counters Heaney: "The job of the artist is to make works of art, not to be involved in one cause or another...
Expectations around the Americans have changed. In Europe, no longer are they regarded as just "those nice kids from the U.S." At home, they are the favorites. "Everyone gets involved in an Olympic year," Mahre says with a touch of vinegar, "but we do this year in and year out. The suddenness of the interest is always a little annoying, and all these expectations are not too enjoyable...
...dirty movies ("The next time I see one of them in a movie line I'm gonna put the majority of my foot up his moral butt"). Murphy can do creepily precise parodies of Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder and the Mandinka-coiffed Mr. T. If venom rather than vinegar laced these creations, they would prove too toxic for the TV audience. But behind them is the impish good will of a little boy exercising his craft, cadging merrily for laughs...
...whom they had last seen in 1979. They stepped through the passport stamper's booth and up to the desk of the Immigration and Naturalization Service official, a sympathetic woman, for fingerprinting and more stamps. They carried their things (a portable tape player, a jar of noodles soaked in vinegar, bath slippers) past the Department of Agriculture inspector and out. The young Santiagos had never been to Los Angeles, let alone the U.S. And yet, as of last Thursday afternoon, they were here to stay...
Breaking for lunch, Brown and Sprague retreat to the wheelhouse to sip coffee from a thermos bottle and eat oysters fresh from the bay. "Can't find anything better than these," says Brown as he dips an oyster into a potent sauce made of vinegar and red and black pepper...