Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York said the word "woman" often becomes shorthand for "change...
...around anymore to provide reliably flashy copy, and without him the team lacked charisma. This handsome new kid, the son of a Sicilian immigrant fisherman, looked promising. His awkwardness and reticence with reporters might be portrayed as enigmatic, as might his absolutely deadpan demeanor on the field. And advance word from DiMaggio's minor league exploits with the San Francisco Seals was that he could, in baseball parlance, "do it all": hit, hit for power, run, field and throw...
...stats and a few crumbs of anecdotes. DiMaggio's persona was wholly the product of abstractions: pride, fidelity, natural aristocracy and, above all, ability. He did not need to talk because he was superior to anything he might have said. "Refined" is what my parents called him, a word currently out of use, and which always implied that one should keep a respectful distance...
...thing we ought to clear up right away: Stanley Kubrick was not, as careless journalism always insisted, reclusive. Elusive was a better word for him; seclusive the best one, implying, one hopes, that his refusal of fame's odious and stupefying obligations was a conscious, clarifying choice he had embraced, not a neurotic compulsion to which he had surrendered...
...trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes a job spraying concrete for a construction firm. Loses job. Is last seen swinging a sledge with his dad, breaking truck tires loose from rims. Gets word processor (we guess), writes all this stuff down to see whether it makes sense. No, but it makes a life, or the rowdy first part of one, and a better-than-fair first novel. Onward...