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Groupie Pits. The beauty and ferocious speed of the sport have survived despite the transmutation. With long wicker baskets called cestas strapped to their arms, the players catch and in a single, fluid motion hurl the pelota toward a 40-ft. granite front wall. The pelota-three-fourths the size of a baseball and harder than a golf ball-caroms toward the 176-ft.-long side wall or arcs toward the back wall at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h. To spectators safe behind a wire screen, the ball seems to fly fast but true. A cesta is ribbed, however...
...archtattler of them all, Deep Throat, told his tales elsewhere. Among the newcomers, the best is George F. Will, who thinks cleanly and writes with irony. Others stand out for special qualities and interests, though these assets become debits when they get Johnny One Note about them, as Tom Wicker does with his angry Southern passion for civil liberties and prison reform, or Anthony Lewis with his affinity for the law and the opinions of the Harvard law faculty. Dave S. Broder ranks as the best political reporter in town. Peter Lisagor is admired for his wry sanity. Mary McGrory...
...William Safire's. Feeling the need to offset the liberalism of Wicker and Lewis, the New York Times in 1973 hired, not a conservative but a Nixonian, and the difference is considerable. A p.r. man before he became a Nixon speechwriter, Safire has had a hard time abandoning a cute, punning style and glib judgments. He is most interesting when most irritating, being as unfair in his opinions as the worst of liberal polemicists. Safire labors constantly to prove that all other politicians and their aides, from Kennedy to Carter, are as bad as Nixon. His forays into foreign...
Last May, liberal Times columnist Tom Wicker and conservative columnist William Safire agreed that socialism was cruel and against human nature. Safire damned socialism as "anti-city, anti-civilization, anti-freedom." But using the rigors of Cambodian socialism to warn Americans away from considering alternatives to capitalism here is dishonest; we face vastly different--and potentially far better--conditions for changing our economic system. But the press' treatment of Cambodia is no isolated instance; coverage of Allende's Chile, and of Portugal today would reveal similarly distorted coverage. Why? A.J. Liebling once said, "Freedom of the press is for those...
...picture of the Great Pink Snail where a couple is peering through a wicker-basket fence at some person, or thing, or phenomenon you will never know...