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...Braves' hitters woke up. For the first 7 games of the playoffs the Braves hitting was nonexistent. Although the Braves swept the Dodgers in the divisional round, that victory can be attributed to the pitchers. Even the Braves' hurlers, however, could not be counted on to continue to deliver wins with only two or three runs to work with...
...morning last week I woke up absolutely certain that, just before falling asleep, I'd seen Elizabeth Dole being interviewed by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, and she was wearing blue jeans, motorcycle boots and a black leather jacket with chains hanging...
Every night I drank beer at Cronin's with my friends, but retired by ten o'clock. An alarm woke me at six; shaggy with sleep, unshaved and uncombed, with a black binder of poetry wedged under my arm, I plugged up hill to Harvard Square and a booth at Albiani's, black coffee, Danish, a lined pad, and my Parker 51.I crossed old words out and substituted words that probably I would cross out in their turn tomorrow. After two hours I walked back to Eliot House and breakfast with the day ahead of me: lectures, Grolier, reading...
There are more pained voices than the book's subtitle suggests. A former Army nurse recalls wounded soldiers in a field hospital: "When they woke up, they thought they'd died. They'd say...'Where am I? Am I in heaven? Are you my mother?' See, they'd be starting to smell my perfume. It was either White Shoulders or Shalimar." At such moments The Living and the Dead can be as cleansing as a good cry in front of the Vietnam War Memorial. But too often Hendrickson inserts himself awkwardly into his design. The result is a form...
...like we woke up on October 1st and discovered the computer," Clark says...