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...Thurber was writing about baseball, specifically, about a game in which a sawed-off number named Pearl du Monville - all 35 inches of him - rallies a flagging team and pushes them on toward the pennant. There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Random House/Rolling Stone Press; $19.95 hard cover, $8.95 in paper) is a lively start to ward righting this situation. No more trips to the record store to consult the catalogues. The Guide contains enough...
...exaggerated, had largely spent itself. But Nixon chose to run against the 1960s - against radicalism, excess, permissiveness - a strategy in which he was greatly aided by McGovern's ill-considered and irresponsible economic schemes, and by the vaguely "revolutionary" slogans put about by some of his wilder and woollier supporters...
Among the woollier samples: Q. How do you make an elephant float? A. With two scoops of ice cream, an elephant and some root beer...
...active in a sort of open-air bordello, and Tony himself was sold to a cattle thief at twelve. At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West" is, if not as wild, at least a great deal woollier than the U.S. West will be right. Along the Ophir River, in the far "backblocks" of Queensland in the '80s, life bravely tried to illustrate Hobbes's definition of man's existence in a state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short...
...Segonzac finally held a one-man show. Paris was impressed (one collector so much so that he immediately bought several pictures), and Segonzac became a lion of the French art world. His friends were the cubists and Fauvists-Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Dufy-but he never let his wilder and woollier pals influence his painting, kept strictly to gentle landscapes, still lifes, and romantic nudes. Once, Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, an ardent advocate of cubism, urged him to join the movement. "Our modern age, the age of aviation," he argued, "should find its reflection in our paintings." Segonzac politely declined: "Corot lived...