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...MCLAIN'S LOCKER. As for the Cy Young Award, Lolich has gone so far as to devise a complex scoring system of his own based on the number of starts, victories, strikeouts, etc. As he points out: "The award, then, wouldn't be based on whim. Of course, the baseball writers aren't about to give up their right to be supreme judges...
...cynicism has little power in Magog's private life. He is an emotional slave to Maire, Gog's promiscuous French-born wife. She favors him at her whim, disappearing out of his life for years at a time. All Earth Mother types cause him pain, including Rosa, one of twin girls out of Maire by Gog or possibly Magog himself. In the face of such confusions, Magog's blowsy mother Merry (Old England?) asserts: "We aren't a family, dear; we're just a blood group...
...Even Whim. Traditionally, too, American women have rarely engaged in politics on behalf of their own sex. Analysis of voting patterns over the years shows that there is nothing readily definable as the women's vote. American women, in fact, cast their ballot much like American men. More important than sex in determining how they will vote are education, class, ethnic background, race, religion or even whim. As Herbert Hyman, professor of sociology at Wesleyan University, puts it: "Women are as heterogeneous a mess as anybody could use for an analytical concept...
Beneath a midnight Mediterranean sky, French customs agents last week approached the shrimp boat Caprice des Temps (Whim of Time) off the Riviera coast. The owner, a 58-year-old fishing-fleet operator named Marcel Boucan, refused to answer a radio order to cut his engines, so the agents fired shots across the vessel's bow and boarded it. Boucan frantically threw mysterious papers overboard and, while being taken back to port, slipped over the side. The next morning he was recaptured, exhausted, near the walls of Marseille's harbor fortress...
...studios figure as greedy, depersonalized monsters, feeding off creativity and destroying it in the process. They are legion: stories of actors locked into wretched contracts, used physically and emotionally; stories of writers slaving over their pictures, only to have autocratic stars change the sweated and bled dialogue on whim, backed up by the studio's full consent; stories of directors's painstakingly crafted films cut and reassembled so as to be unrecognizable. A great cry of "Cheat!" hovers in the dusty...