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As for Joe Theismann, his name would be rhymed with Heisman even if he spelled it Zzxyz. Since taking over for the injured Terry Hanratty at the end of the 1968 season, he has led the Fighting Irish to 16 victories and only two defeats. This season, with Split End...
riverrun takes its title from the opening of Finnegans Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay . . ." The literary allusion is an unnecessary device; Korty's pace and McLiam's face are enough to supply this wry, wispy film with...
Then came a Cuban flag, bold and bright, for a moment reminding me that once, when Castro was still in the hills, he looked like a hero to many of us. Then I remembered "'Al paredon [To the Wall]!" and the betrayals that came before the sugar cane. But...
Worrisome Gap. The special quality of Collector Tannahill's taste was for the warmly intimate. He chose the sensuous over the coldly classical, and though he appreciated style, he did not care for the showy. Sometimes his predilections led him astray. He owned, for instance, ten works by the...
Lehane also chronicles the vita activa of the flea as vaudevillian; the flea as athlete (one "can jump about 150 times its own length along, and about 80 times its length up"); the flea as spreader of plague and, in the case of the male, even as sexual tyrant. In...